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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:27:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP3j=YpHtuOMQvhnJ5dgrKRp4rYyRGnQTkfUUJNdLhM1+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T3MkK-aWKv34G4GwR-HafYiz1t5sK4xsvX4jP6_xq8QPA@mail.gmail.com>

> yeah... I had similar thoughts on what to do if some Outputs specify an
> amount and others don't. I'm still waffling on whether or not I like
> allowing repeated Outputs; a single Output would make the spec a fair bit
> simpler

Yes, but at the cost of privacy. Generators of payment requests always
have the option of just adding a single output and being done with it.
But in future they'll probably want to keep their income in unlinkable
chunks of a size that's up to them, and multi-outputs are needed for
this (the idea being, the users wallet tries to keep a
close-as-possible match between the requested outputs and their own).

OK, let's punt on tipping for now.

> If a bitcoin client accepts unsigned payment requests (a couple of people
> have asked if that would be possible so I think that is desired), then it
> doesn't have the payer's identity-- all it has is the Outputs that will be
> paid.

I see. If I were to implement a wallet I'd just display nothing
(except the size of the request). Showing an address doesn't really
help the user in any way.

> I still like the idea of only including the root CAs who have jumped through
> the hoops needed to get the "allowed to issue EV certs" blessing.

The hoops only actually apply for EV certs though, they aren't
required to do that verification for DV certs.

The main reason to use the browser root CAs is that merchants are
guaranteed to be able to re-use their existing certs. Otherwise they
might have to buy new ones, which would be annoying.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-07 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-26 22:37 Gavin Andresen
2012-11-26 23:02 ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:13   ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:16     ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:19       ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:27         ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:32         ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-26 23:44           ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-27  0:16             ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-27  0:26               ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27  0:45                 ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  1:09                   ` Gavin
2012-11-27  8:44                   ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27  0:44               ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:38 ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-26 23:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-11-27  0:02   ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  0:31     ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-27  0:37       ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  2:16 ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  2:47   ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-27  3:16     ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  3:29       ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  3:31         ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  3:54           ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  4:17             ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  8:43               ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 10:23                 ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 10:42                   ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 11:36                     ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-27 11:46                       ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 12:03                     ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 12:39                       ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 14:05                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-27 14:26                           ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28 13:55                           ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27 17:03 ` Andy Parkins
2012-11-27 17:14   ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 17:26     ` Andy Parkins
2012-11-27 18:16       ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 21:39         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28 10:43           ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-28 12:57             ` Peter Todd
2012-11-28 14:09               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28  8:33 ` Peter Todd
2012-11-28 23:36 ` Roy Badami
2012-11-29  0:30   ` Watson Ladd
2012-11-29  8:16     ` slush
2012-11-29 16:11   ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-29 17:07     ` Roy Badami
2012-11-29 17:30       ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-29 17:31       ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-29 18:53         ` Roy Badami
2012-12-01 19:25           ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-03 19:35             ` Mike Koss
2012-12-03 20:59               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-03 21:28               ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-03 22:26                 ` Roy Badami
2012-12-03 22:34                   ` Jeff Garzik
2012-12-03 22:48                     ` Roy Badami
2012-12-16 21:15               ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17  2:18                 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-12-17  8:24                   ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17  9:19                     ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-17  9:31                       ` Gary Rowe
2012-12-17 11:23                       ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17 17:57                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-20 16:53                           ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-20 17:43                             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-20 19:32                               ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-21 17:05                                 ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-24  0:38                                   ` Elden Tyrell
2012-12-04 17:06             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-05 19:34               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-06  6:31                 ` Andreas Petersson
2012-12-06  8:53                   ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 16:56                     ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-06 17:55                       ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 19:13                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-07 10:45                           ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-07 11:01                             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-07 16:19                               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-07 16:27                                 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2012-12-06 18:13                       ` Alan Reiner
     [not found]                       ` <CALf2ePx5jS@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-17 19:28                         ` Vezalke
2012-12-03 21:42         ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-12-23  2:33 ` Mark Friedenbach

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