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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: slush <slush@centrum.cz>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP 70 extension
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:06:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0YV4xcK7y+H=gTmv_Hxs3nuACqEHWLUfcDdQeRhBF2Hw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJna-HhX8HOci0KMe4ZScr4QW792S3n5twvU0QhbQe1N_3q7_w@mail.gmail.com>

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>
> Sounds like marketing bullshit to me. It does not have even statistical
> meaning; well, you can "save" a lot of satoshis, but nobody tell you that
> the merchant cut you on BTC/USD exchange rate in tens of %.
>

Your own wallet can look up the exchange rate and compare it to what you're
getting (and in fact, wallets do!).

Besides, assuming the customer is *always* being scammed seems extreme.
There are plenty of merchants that genuinely care about their reputation
and genuinely want people to pay with Bitcoin so they can avoid card fees.


> Payment protocol should not contain these fictional data
>

Well, I think the protocol should contain whatever is useful.

I'll probably draft a BIP for this next week or so.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-24 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-24 13:27 [Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP 70 extension Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 14:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-24 14:24   ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 14:32     ` slush
2014-06-24 15:06       ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-06-24 15:15       ` Gmail
2014-06-24 15:48         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-24 19:00           ` Gmail
2014-06-24 19:34             ` Andy Alness
2014-06-24 20:12             ` Gavin Andresen
2014-06-24 20:28               ` Gmail
2014-06-25  8:25                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-25 13:33                   ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-25 18:10                     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-25 14:15                   ` slush
2014-06-25 16:03                     ` Gmail
2014-06-24 18:34   ` Roy Badami
2014-06-24 15:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-06-24 15:59   ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 17:37 ` Drak

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