4 standards
The documents whose job is to say what breaks: the limits of a scheme, the risk of depending on one interface, the cases a format does not cover, and the clarifications that exist because people assumed wrongly.
Also searched as limitation, risk, threat model, security analysis, criticism, caveat, withdrawn.
4 standards, spread across 3 of the 12 topics.
A single interface every application uses is convenient, and convenience is how ecosystems end up depending on one provider. This names the risks honestly and gives implementers practical ways to avoid them.
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Risks and limitations is the main subject of this one.
A single interface every application uses is convenient, and convenience is how ecosystems end up depending on one provider. This names the risks honestly and gives implementers practical ways to avoid them.
These are about something else, and deal with risks and limitations on the way.
The blockchain can carry data as well as money, but data has to be attached to an output nobody can spend. This defines how to write such an output and the practices to follow when putting data in one.
An earlier way of revealing how two parties' keys are linked asks the recipient to take the claim on faith. This sets out plainly what a verifier cannot check for themselves, as the case for something better.
Free blockchain explorer lookups (finding a transaction or checking an address's history by typing its ID) feel like a permanent utility, but someone pays in storage, bandwidth and recovery costs for every address and transaction they index forever. Apps and wallets that rely entirely on a provider's free lookups have no warning if that provider decides to narrow what it indexes for free, and no shared playbook for what "narrower" would even mean. This proposal gives providers a common, predictable schedule for shrinking free coverage, so apps can plan ahead instead of being surprised.
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