On 02/23/2015 03:11 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: >> I don't see how you propose to treat the bitcoin address as a >> secp256k1 public key, or do you mean something else? > > Sorry, I skipped a step. I shouldn't make assumptions about what's > obvious. No problem, we don't all have the same context. I may have missed prior discussion. > The server would provide the public key and the client would > convert it to address form then match against the URI it has scanned. > If it didn't match, stop at that point. Does this not also require the BT publication of the script for a P2SH address? e