Re: [Bitcoin-development] Serialised P2SH HD chains

[Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:

> Is anyone working on a serialisation format to convey P2SH HD chains? For example,
> to give someone who wants to make recurring payments a single token that
> can be used to generate many P2SH addresses paying to a multisig script.


Seems like the wrong approach to me, because in practice you really need
a reasonable expiration date or some way of determining that whatever you
are paying
is still around (I still get random transactions to the Bitcoin Faucet's
old addresses).

See the discussion from January about extending the payment protocol for
recurring transactions:

https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03823.html

"Give them a single token" == "give them a recurring PaymentRequest" in my
mind. Or maybe "Give them a URL where they can fetch PaymentRequests
whenever they need to make a payment" or maybe "Give them an array of
PaymentRequests for the next X days/months/years of payments."

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Gavin Andresen

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