Would it be feasible to transmit an entire BIP21 URI as audio? If you were
to encode any extra information (such as amount), it would be useful to
include a checksum for the entire message. This checksum could possibly be
used instead of the checksum in the address.

Trevin

On Aug 8, 2016 3:06 PM, "Justin Newton via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Daniel,
>    Thanks for proposing this.  I think this could have some useful use
> cases as you state.  I was wondering what you would think to adding some
> additional tones to optionally denote an amount (in satoshis?).
>
> (FYI, actual link is here:  https://github.com/Dako300/BIP )
>
> Justin
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Hoffman via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> This is my BIP idea: a fast, robust, and standardized for representing
>> Bitcoin addresses over audio. It takes the binary representation of the
>> Bitcoin address (little endian), chops that up into 4 or 2 bit chunks
>> (depending on type, 2 bit only for low quality audio like american
>> telephone lines), and generates a tone based upon that value. This started
>> because I wanted an easy way to donate to podcasts that I listen to, and
>> having a Shazam-esque app (or a media player with this capability) that
>> gives me an address automatically would be wonderful for both the consumer
>> and producer. Comes with error correction built into the protocol
>>
>> You can see the full specification of the BIP on my GitHub page (
>> https://github.com/Dako300/BIP-0153).
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