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From: E willbefull <ewillbefull@gmail•com>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>,
	bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol: BIP 70, 71, 72
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:30:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGRKETunznLbBZO1gnS7WZH5sn=TnmKPS4Gz_Nrtocoe5devbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T14Dfh8SEe6wsCJjE=S8hTcfDrAUNMBCjtkvM+UH-bAYQ@mail.gmail.com>

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I think it's important to expect PaymentRequest-only bitcoin URIs in the
future. Some types of payments (exotic transactions) may not make sense to
have a single fallback address. Or, a page with a bitcoin URI link may be
relying on a separate service provider to assemble the transaction.


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Is it envisaged to be possible/sensible to have a URI that is *only* a
> > payment request?  i.e. something like the following (although I'm not
> > sure this is a valid URI):
> >
> > bitcoin:?request=https%3A%2F%2Fmerchant.com%2Fpay.php%3Fh%3D2a8628fc2fbe
>
> I think we'll want a bitcoin address in there for a long time for
> backwards compatibility.
>
> If web browser support for arbitrary MIME types is strong enough (I
> haven't tested), then a payment request can be initiated with just an
> anchor tag:
>   <a href="https://merchant.com/pay.php?3D2a8628fc2fbe"
> type="application/bitcoin-paymentrequest">
>
> Doing it that way saves a http round-trip.
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-31  6:28 Gavin Andresen
2013-07-31  8:45 ` Roy Badami
     [not found]   ` <CABsx9T3Xvnw2H6awgnT7mr-HzJOqCp_nOVM57BD-B9mY4R43aQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-07-31 11:33     ` Gavin Andresen
2013-07-31 11:45       ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-07-31 23:30       ` E willbefull [this message]
2013-07-31 23:38         ` Gavin Andresen
2013-07-31 23:52           ` E willbefull
2013-08-07 20:12         ` Roy Badami
2013-07-31  8:59 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-31 11:19   ` Gavin Andresen
2013-08-07 20:31 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-08-07 21:10   ` Gavin Andresen
2013-08-07 21:17     ` Mike Hearn
2013-08-07 21:36       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-08-07 21:44         ` Mike Hearn
2013-08-07 21:49           ` Pieter Wuille
2013-08-07 21:28     ` Roy Badami
2013-08-07 21:47     ` Alan Reiner
2013-08-14 10:56     ` Jouke Hofman
2013-08-07 21:47 ` Roy Badami
2013-08-07 21:54   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-08-07 22:03     ` Roy Badami
2013-08-08  0:48       ` Gavin Andresen
2013-08-08  9:13         ` Mike Hearn
2013-08-08 14:13         ` Pieter Wuille
2013-08-19 22:15 ` Andreas Petersson
2013-08-19 23:19   ` Gavin Andresen
2013-08-20 10:05     ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-24 13:52       ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-24 23:35         ` Gavin Andresen
2013-09-25  9:27           ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-25 10:28             ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-09-25 11:15               ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-25 11:33                 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-09-25 11:45                   ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-25 11:59                     ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-09-25 14:31                       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-09-25 14:38                         ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-25 11:35                 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-09-25 16:12                   ` The Doctor
2013-09-26  6:37                   ` Peter Todd
2013-09-25 14:26               ` Jeff Garzik

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