I think there is nothing wrong with having a numeric memo field, which is effectively what this is. Structured rather than unstructured data.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Gmail <will.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:32, slush <sl...@centrum.cz> wrote: >> >> Sounds like marketing bullshit to me. It does not have even statistical >> meaning; well, you can "save" a lot of satoshis, but nobody tell you that >> the merchant cut you on BTC/USD exchange rate in tens of %. > > People would also abuse this feature in the same way amazon (and other sales > sites) abuse the definition of "save". For example, Amazon will indicate that > you're getting x% off by shopping at amazon, but all that number really means > is x% off MSRP. In reality, every website has the same price. I have no doubt > that merchants would put similarly meaningless and/or misleading data in this > field. > > I agree, the memo field is appropriate for this data. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
