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From: Justus Ranvier <justus.ranvier@monetas.net>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Reusable payment codes
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:50:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHabJ+McTyW=6Vp1GwTzKefsP9Uo0w+A++sUBwMYJn4L3N__ow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP20sFUHcabC4+JyR3rv6Xi9AXCUYo__3ZkfWyDjm1YQ7Q@mail.gmail.com>

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Payment codes establish the identity of the payer and allow for simpler
methods for identifying the payee, and automatically provide the payee with
the information they need to send a refund.

If merchants and customers were using payment codes, they would not need
the BIP70 equivalents.

I think the best way to explain payment codes is that they add the missing
"from address" to transactions which users want, but we've had to tell them
they can't have.

A payment code behaves much more like an email address than a traditional
Bitcoin address.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:

> Could you maybe write a short bit of text comparing this approach to
> extending BIP70 and combining it with a simple Subspace style
> store-and-forward network?
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-26 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-24 20:00 [Bitcoin-development] Reusable payment codes Justus Ranvier
2015-04-24 20:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
     [not found]   ` <CAHabJ+MtWJS=e3tkGih=xoP4ARgHe8X=D_p9OWTnRJi0z9epBw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-25  0:20     ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Justus Ranvier
     [not found]     ` <CAHabJ+Oabx80+_1KutfrPUt5QEnMivfNeeh4uJJJOsiHRQqSZw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-25  0:21       ` Justus Ranvier
     [not found] ` <1AE7B0A2-90EE-42EE-9D30-4DC1B5892E53@newcastle.ac.uk>
     [not found]   ` <CAHabJ+NDqMN-rQ1BN1TfOjGLQHH-3Wd28LdoF95Agn4HdRrThg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-25  0:22     ` Justus Ranvier
     [not found]       ` <CAAS2fgSAT2otym64oUACpWD8jWLAB6dBusONn-WUx2DK59SB5w@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-25  2:34         ` Justus Ranvier
2015-04-26 12:58           ` Mike Hearn
2015-04-26 14:50             ` Justus Ranvier [this message]
2015-06-16 16:26 ` [Bitcoin-development] " odinn
2015-06-16 17:46   ` Peter Todd
2015-06-17  5:34     ` odinn

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