Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

From: Mike Hearn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:19:19 +0100

Can we please drop the binary vs text issue? We have been around it
millions of times already. There are no compelling arguments to use
text here and several obvious problems with it. If you think you've
found a good argument to use JSON, please research protocol buffers
more thoroughly and see if it changes your mind.