Re: [bitcoin-dev] The Cryptographic Relay: An Electrical Device For Smart Transferable Hardware

2020-07-20 Thread Andy Schroder via bitcoin-dev
See multiple places below Andy Schroder On 7/20/20 10:18 AM, ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev wrote: Introduction An electrical relay is an electrically-controlled switch, often diagrammed as: +-o | | \ |\ +--o o---o o

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Authentication BIP

2016-08-08 Thread Andy Schroder via bitcoin-dev
On 08/08/2016 01:42 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Andy Schroder via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: I have mixed feelings about strictly tying the identity-public-keys with a [...] guaranteed static IP address. The second

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Even more proposed BIP extensions to BIP 0070

2016-06-22 Thread Andy Schroder via bitcoin-dev
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 , not

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Even more proposed BIP extensions to BIP 0070

2016-06-21 Thread Andy Schroder via bitcoin-dev
Bluetooth exchange of payment requests already has a noticeable lag with protocol buffers, so that would be another reason to argue against JSON, because JSON is less efficient size wise, correct? I will say that although protocol buffers have good platform support, I don't know that the