> I was thinking that people could upload a payment protocol file somewhere > once (like to their personal web page, or shared via dropbox or google > drive or some custom new pastebin style service), and then just encode a > regular bitcoin URI into the qrcode on the billboard.
That does require trusting the third party not to later tamper with the payment request, though. (I'm assuming that a signed payment request is not always going to be all that useful in the case of private individuals, even assuming the payee is willing to sign up for one.) > Likewise, I could attach a payment request to an email and send it to you, > and now you can pay me whenever you want forever. That certainly sounds like a plausible use case. You do still have the problem that e-mail is an insecure channel, but it's no worse than exchanging Bitcoin addreses over e-mail as things stand at the moment. roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
