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

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Hearn
> 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 alw

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

2012-12-07 Thread Gavin Andresen
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Yet more comments (I guess at some point we need to stick a fork in it > - or at least move on to implementing a prototype version). > Yes, my next step is prototyping. Note that this is not a BIP yet: I want to have a working implementation

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

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Hearn
Yet more comments (I guess at some point we need to stick a fork in it - or at least move on to implementing a prototype version). Maybe don't require the payment URI to be HTTPS. If you want to pay a Tor hidden service then HTTPS just adds unnecessary complexity. Just recommend to merchants that

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

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Hearn
> OK. I want to keep the signature field required, though, so how about: > > signature: digital signature over a protocol buffer serialized variation of > the SignedPaymentRequest message where signature is a zero-byte array and > fields are serialized in numerical order (all current protocol buffe