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From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:55:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T3NCpD19NehONkAdJXH=pS=GwDM044hFY_Hws-vkJcgBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRRobkE2GdYomtJof7HCH-9ZczE9EBj7DBS-pCGscUSNQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:

> ....

This would give us an fully supported option which is completely CA
> free... it would only work for tor sites, but the people concerned
> about CA trechery are likely to want to use tor in any case.
>
> Thoughts?
>

I think a tiny number of people would use it, so from a purely engineering
priority perspective my initial reaction is "not worth it."

However, as a demonstration of the flexibility of the payment protocol and
because it is a really nifty idea that will give lots of people warm
fuzzies I think you should do it and we should pull it.

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Gavin Andresen

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-26  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-26  3:31 [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-26  3:41 ` Luke-Jr
2013-10-26  4:06   ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-28 12:14     ` Adam Back
2013-10-28 13:21       ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-26  3:55 ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2013-10-26  4:15 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-28  5:58 ` John Dillon
2013-10-28 19:37   ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-10-31  0:44     ` Peter Todd

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