From: Danny Thorpe <danny.thorpe@gmail•com>
To: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon•cc>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:12:42 -0700 [thread overview]
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Rather than using an inhumanly long hex string from the genesis hash to
distinguish between mainnet and testnet, why not use the network magic
bytes instead? Much shorter, just as distinct.
I'd still prefer a common network name mapping for the sake of humanity.
Few bitcoin library implementations use the same string names for mainnet
and testnet. This BIP could simply define one string name alias for each
supported network and leave mapping to local lingo to the implementors.
-Danny
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Jorge Timón <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Matt Whitlock via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > That's still not right, since "mainnet" and "testnet" are not host names.
> >
> > You'd have to do something like:
> >
> >
> blockchain:?network=testnet&txid=3b95a766d7a99b87188d6875c8484cb2b310b78459b7816d4dfc3f0f7e04281a
>
> 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 agree with Andreas Schildbach that respecting the most commonly used
> schemes is desirable.
> So my preference would be:
>
>
> /tx/3b95a766d7a99b87188d6875c8484cb2b310b78459b7816d4dfc3f0f7e04281a?chain=000000000933ea01ad0ee984209779baaec3ced90fa3f408719526f8d77f4943
>
> (a tx in testnet)
>
>
> /block/00000000000000000b0d504d142ac8bdd1a2721d19f423a8146d0d6de882167b?chain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
>
> (a block in bitcoin's mainnet)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 16:12 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
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 [this message]
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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