From: Marco Pontello <marcopon@gmail•com>
To: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock•name>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 23:38:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE0pACLQZC9Tuggwerah4LruVTfFpbOnvo0oKj4EYU8yJ9VXuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5546682.RnG4VcateO@crushinator>
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I see your point. But I personally like that the chain part could be
optional, given that the vast majority of the references in the end will be
to Bitcoin main net.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock•name>
wrote:
> Isn't this all backward? The "authority" component of the URL should
> identify the chain, and the "path" component should identify the particular
> block, tx, or address in that chain.
>
> So instead of:
>
>
> blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
>
> It should be:
>
>
> blockchain://000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
>
> And I would agree with allowing well-known chains to register a name, to
> be used as an alternative to the literal, hash syntax:
>
>
> blockchain://bitcoin/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
>
>
> On Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 4:49 pm, Marco Pontello wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Jorge Timón <
> > bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I would really prefer chain=<chainID> over network=<chainPetnameStr>
> > > By chainID I mean the hash of the genesis block, see
> > >
> > >
> https://github.com/jtimon/bitcoin/commit/3191d5e8e75687a27cf466b7a4c70bdc04809d39
> > > I'm completely fine with doing that using an optional parameter (for
> > > backwards compatibility).
> > >
> >
> > I see that using the genesis block hash would be the perfectly rigorous
> way
> > to do it, but what do you think about the possibility of letting also use
> > the name constants, as a simple / more relaxed alternative? That would
> > spare a source lookup just to write a correct reference to a tx, maybe
> in a
> > forum or a post.
> >
> > So a reference to a certain tx could be either:
> >
> >
> blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
> >
> >
> blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
> >
> >
> blockchain://ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=main
> >
> > (or a different element name maybe)
> >
> > --
> > Try the Online TrID File Identifier
> > http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx
>
--
Try the Online TrID File Identifier
http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-29 11:48 Marco Pontello
2015-08-29 16:31 ` Richard Moore
2015-08-29 17:19 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-08-29 19:24 ` Richard Moore
2015-08-29 18:07 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-09-01 14:33 ` Marco Pontello
2015-08-29 18:58 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-29 19:01 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-08-29 20:10 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-30 2:02 ` Chun Wang
2015-08-30 2:20 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-01 22:56 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 14:49 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 21:16 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 21:25 ` Esteban Ordano
2015-09-01 21:38 ` Marco Pontello [this message]
2015-09-01 21:42 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 21:43 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 22:46 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-01 23:25 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 16:12 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-09-01 22:59 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 23:57 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-29 19:28 ` Richard Moore
2015-09-01 14:51 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-15 2:14 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-15 11:42 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-16 0:59 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-16 14:43 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-16 22:10 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-18 11:29 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-18 12:31 ` Marco Pontello
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