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From: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 02:05:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcducr$m1i$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54EA5AAE.3040306@voskuil.org>

On 02/22/2015 11:39 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote:

> The MAC address (and resource name) should be encoded using base58. This
> is shorter than base16, is often shorter than base64, better
> standardized and does not require URI encoding, and is generally
> available to implementers.

Of course this is just a minor detail, but Base64Url is well defined,
almost always more efficient than Base58 and never less efficient, and
implemented in way more libraries and OSes than Base58. Base58 was
designed for copy-typing by humans.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-23  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-22 19:08 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback Jan Vornberger
2015-02-22 22:37 ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-22 23:06   ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-22 23:32     ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-23  0:05       ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-23  1:02       ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-23  7:36         ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-23  9:13           ` Natanael
2015-02-23  9:40           ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-24  2:55             ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-24  5:53               ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-24 11:28                 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-24 19:49                   ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-24 22:14                     ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-24 22:50                       ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-25  2:09                         ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-28  9:46                           ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-23  9:49           ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-23 10:08             ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-23 10:58               ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-23 11:58                 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-23 12:18                   ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-23 12:30                     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-23 23:00                 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-23 23:11                   ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-24  0:10                     ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-24 10:41                       ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-26 12:30                         ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-03  0:54                           ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-23  0:58   ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-23 15:09   ` Jan Vornberger
2015-02-23 16:59     ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-23 19:56       ` Jan Vornberger
2015-02-23 20:31         ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-24  6:14     ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-24 15:41       ` Jan Vornberger
2015-02-26 12:37     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-22 22:39 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-22 22:48   ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-22 23:35     ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-23  0:46       ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-23  1:05   ` Andreas Schildbach [this message]
2015-02-23  1:55     ` Aaron Voisine
2015-02-23  0:48 ` Andreas Schildbach
     [not found] <54ED2F34.8090704@voskuil.org>
     [not found] ` <54ED3150.4020800@AndySchroder.com>
     [not found]   ` <54ED7D8B.5070903@schildbach.de>
2015-02-25  9:20     ` Eric Voskuil

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