Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proof of Payment

2015-03-14 Thread Kalle Rosenbaum
Actually, the security of the PaymetRequest is pretty much out of your control as soon as the PaymentRequest is created on the server. You have no idea what the hotel does with it. Also if it's stored in the hotel server I have to trust the hotel to keep it safe for me. Well, yes. But if

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-03-14 Thread Isidor Zeuner
That was essentially what we did in the end, we replaced the network identifier (main/test) with the genesis block hash. The result is never going to accidentally work with Bitcoin Core (nor vice-versa), but is readily extensible to any other altcoins that want to use the specification

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proof of Payment

2015-03-14 Thread Kalle Rosenbaum
Den 14 mar 2015 00:59 skrev Patrick Mccorry (PGR) patrick.mcco...@newcastle.ac.uk: That all seems more complicated than it needs to be - the service you are paying knows that it had received a payment from some public key Q (regardless of script type, as all scripts require a public key). The