On 06/22/2016 04:25 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Only large merchants are able to maintain such an infrastructure; (even > Coinbase recently failed at it, they forgot to update their > certificate). For end users that is completely unpractical. > > > Payment protocol is for when you buy stuff from purse.io > <http://purse.io>, not really needed for face-to face transfers, end > users, IMO.
What Andy said, plus there is an (unencrypted) version of BIP70 via Bluetooth already in place. And its used in several thousand face-to-face trades per day. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
