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Satoshi Nakamoto describes a possible design for transaction replacement — allowing a double-spend with a higher fee to replace the original transaction. This concept would later become known as Replace-by-Fee (RBF). Peter Todd replied to this post approximately 1.5 hours later.
Mike Hearn announces the open-source release of BitcoinJ under the Apache 2 license, and asks about merkle branch verification, scripting language ideas, and why transaction replacement was disabled.
Mike Hearn offers to write a wiki page on Bitcoin contracts, asks about re-enabling transaction replacement, and asks whether Satoshi plans to rejoin the community. He raises the tragedy of the commons concern about mining fees.