Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Alan Reiner
That's fine. I just want to make sure it's considered for inclusion at some point, because I really hope to leverage the "identity" mechanism I just described, and it's much easier if it's part of a standard instead of convincing others to go around the standard with us. I have not spent much tim

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Gavin Andresen
As Mike said: the payment protocol doesn't use bitcoin addresses under the covers. It is also designed to be easily extensible, so if you want the server to send the wallet software a public key and multiplier, then add "publickey" and "multiplier" optional fields to the PaymentDetails (or maybe O

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
It's BIP specified and implemented in Bitcoin-Qt so now is the time to start :) I'm hoping that most wallets can announce support near simultaneously On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Alan Reiner wrote: > That's fine. I just want to make sure it's considered for inclusion at > some point,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
Payment protocol is locked down for v1 already. But did you read it? It doesn't use addresses anywhere. Payments are specified in terms of a list of outputs which can contain any script. Of course it could be a pay-to-address script, but pay-to-address uses more bytes in the chain and there isn't a

[Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Alan Reiner
Guys, I'd like to reiterate my previous request to support this alternate address serialization in the payment protocol. We got caught up in the specifics of one use case, but didn't acknowledge that it's still a valid address representation that will provide value to those who wish to use it and