Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for conveniently referring to confirmed transactions

2017-07-17 Thread Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev
On Friday, 14 July 2017 20:43:37 CEST Clark Moody via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I can understand the desire to keep all reference strings to the nice > 14-character version by keeping the data payload to 40 bits I’m not so clear on this, to be honest. What is the point of having a user-readable tx-ref

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for conveniently referring to confirmed transactions

2017-07-14 Thread Велеслав via bitcoin-dev
ginal Message -------- Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for conveniently referring to confirmed transactions Local Time: July 15, 2017 1:43 AM UTC Time: July 14, 2017 6:43 PM From: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org (copying from GitHub per

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for conveniently referring to confirmed transactions

2017-07-14 Thread Clark Moody via bitcoin-dev
(copying from GitHub per jonasschnelli's request) I can understand the desire to keep all reference strings to the nice 14-character version by keeping the data payload to 40 bits, but it seems to place artificial limitations on the format (year 2048 & 8191 transactions). I also understand that th

[bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for conveniently referring to confirmed transactions

2017-05-23 Thread Велеслав via bitcoin-dev
Hello List, I would like to propose a BIP that specifies a way of referring to transactions that have been successfully inserted into the blockchain. The format makes use of the excellent Bech32 encoding, and is designed to be short and useful for human use. A C reference implementation is incl