Re: [bitcoin-dev] Base64-encoded descriptors

[Pavol Rusnak <stick@satoshilabs.com>]

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I'd rather see something using Base58 or even better Bech32. Base64 is not
URL/QR code friendly.

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 18:06 Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I've recently been playing around with descriptors, and they are very
> nice to work with. They should become the standard for master public
> keys IMO.
>
> One downside is that users cant easily copypaste them to-and-fro to make
> watch-only wallet. The descriptors contain parenthesis and commas which
> stop highlighting by double-clicking. Also the syntax might look scary
> to newbs.
>
> An obvious solution is to base64 encode the descriptors. Then users
> would get a text blog as the master public key without any extra details
> to bother them, and developers can easily base64 decode for developing
> with them.
>
> A complication might be the descriptor checksum. If there's a typo in
> the base64 text then that could decode into multiple character errors in
> the descriptor, which might be problematic for the checksum. Maybe the
> descriptor could be base64 encoded without the checksum, then attach the
> checksum to the end of the base64 text.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> I didn't come up with these ideas, they came from discussions with
> achow101.
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