Hi All,
Just a few comments about choosing an encoding and why this is even
being proposed.
On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 12:17 PM, William Casarin via
bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I don't think encoding descriptors is a good idea. Encoding makes more
> sense if it's non-human-readable binary data
Blind Merged Mining (BMM) is the idea of committing the hash of another
blockchain into a unique location on the Bitcoin blockchain, and paying a
Bitcoin fee to miners for the privilege of deciding this hash and capturing
the fees inside the other blockchain. Since miners don’t have to know what
Hey Chris,
Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev writes:
> I've recently been playing around with descriptors, and they are very
> nice to work with. They should become the standard for master public
> keys IMO.
>
> One downside is that users cant easily copypaste them to-and-fro to make
> watch-only
Part of the aversion to using bech32 may be that the BCH code used in
bech32 for error detection doesn't hold up for messages longer than some
length (that I can't remember off the top of my head). It still encodes
and decodes perfectly well but a decoder won't be guaranteed to detect
potential
