Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proof of Payment

2015-03-14 Thread Kalle Rosenbaum
Den 14 mar 2015 00:59 skrev "Patrick Mccorry (PGR)" < patrick.mcco...@newcastle.ac.uk>: > > That all seems more complicated than it needs to be - the service you are paying knows that it had received a payment from some public key Q (regardless of script type, as all scripts require a public key).

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-03-14 Thread Isidor Zeuner
> That was essentially what we did in the end, we replaced the network > identifier ("main"/"test") with the genesis block hash. The result is > never going to accidentally work with Bitcoin Core (nor vice-versa), but > is readily extensible to any other altcoins that want to use the > specificatio

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proof of Payment

2015-03-14 Thread Kalle Rosenbaum
> > Actually, the security of the PaymetRequest is pretty much out of your >> control as soon as the PaymentRequest is created on the server. You have no >> idea what the hotel does with it. Also if it's stored in the hotel server I >> have to trust the hotel to keep it safe for me. >> > > Well, ye