From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:18:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP30PLQAebOkoLUphR+6wnwyE7K_BX=bszF8T5UPvai-Lg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0Nj2f4mSKNggGH4sXZTLYNwdVGO7uMSzN7V_vVKU-6w9Q@mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Payment protocol just doesn't well the use cases of,
> * an on-going payment stream from, e.g. Eligius to coinbase
> * deposit addresses and deposit situations
This seems to be the key point of disagreement here. Wladimir and I think
it satisfies your requirement just fine. You disagree. Let's get to the
bottom of that.
A PaymentRequest with a zero valued pay-to-address output and an expiration
time, base58 encoded, would look very much like your extended address form.
I don't suggest anyone actually represents PaymentRequest's using base58
but it helps to see the conceptual analogue. There'd be a bit more stuff in
there like some varint and wiretype codes but we're talking a handful of
bytes. Functionally, it'd be identical.
Places like protocols or APIs that require a piece of text and cannot
handle a piece of binary data could be retrofitted into the new world by
accepting base58 encoded PaymentRequest's. This would be kind of silly
because it's fundamentally binary data, but we already do this so it's at
least consistently silly :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-15 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-15 8:00 Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 8:19 ` Wladimir
2014-07-15 8:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 8:31 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-07-15 8:48 ` Wladimir
2014-07-15 8:20 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-15 10:25 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 14:27 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:48 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:18 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-07-15 15:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:41 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 16:26 ` Mike Hearn
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