Hi,
I’ve been doing some work lately to create a specification for bitcoin pointers.
They can be used to point to transactions, inputs, outputs or some internal items within them.
The proposals strive for simplicity and user friendliness over compactness or other attributes.
There are three proposals, each of which builds upon the previous one, namely:
a) Canonical Pointers
The basic proposal.They look like this example: btc@170.1/179-631-520
b) Mnemonic Pointers
They build on Canonical Pointers and the dictionary provided in bip39 to use words instead of numbers.
The previous Canonical pointer can thus be expressed as
btc@best.ability/biology-exclude-donate
c) Domain Pointers
They build on the Domain Name Registration system to encode a pointer to a Canonical Pointer as in
btc@example.com
I haven’t had any peer review yet, so it is very likely that some small or big problems can be found.
I’d welcome any feedback from the community.
Best regards,
José Femenías Cañuelo