From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 05:55:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170929095537.GA15286@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oql14j$4qq$1@blaine.gmane.org>
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:44:11AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On 09/29/2017 03:45 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> >> This feels redundant to me; the payment protocol already has an
> >> expiration time.
> >
> > I'm well aware. As the payment protocol hasn't caught on - and doesn't fully
> > overlap all the usecases that addresses do anyway - I think we should consider
> > bringing this important feature to Bitcoin addresses too.
>
> Hasn't caught on? It is used for virtually all merchant transactions,
> plus person to person transactions between Bitcoin Wallet users.
"Virtually all"?
I regularly pay with Bitcoin, and I haven't seen the payment protocol used in
ages.
Can you name some users of it?
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-27 16:06 [bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173 Peter Todd
2017-09-27 18:15 ` CryptAxe
2017-09-27 19:03 ` Mark Friedenbach
2017-09-27 21:20 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-27 19:35 ` Chris Priest
2017-09-27 20:11 ` CryptAxe
2017-09-27 20:23 ` Nick Pudar
2017-09-27 20:19 ` CryptAxe
2017-09-27 21:09 ` Mark Friedenbach
2017-09-27 21:15 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-28 0:22 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-09-27 21:33 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-28 0:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-09-29 1:50 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-29 2:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-09-28 10:09 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-28 12:43 ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-28 14:13 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-28 14:41 ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-28 15:06 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-28 15:45 ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-28 16:59 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-09-29 2:18 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-29 7:18 ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-29 2:55 ` [bitcoin-dev] Why the BIP-72 Payment Protocol URI Standard is Insecure Against MITM Attacks Peter Todd
2017-09-29 4:21 ` Omar Shibli
2017-09-29 13:14 ` Tomas
2017-09-29 17:40 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-09-30 15:33 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-29 1:45 ` [bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173 Peter Todd
2017-09-29 8:44 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-29 9:55 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2017-09-29 12:45 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-29 13:52 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-29 17:25 ` Gregory Maxwell
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