Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bech32 and P2SH²

2018-01-06 Thread Adam Ritter via bitcoin-dev
The question that I didn't see answered in the Bech32 proposal is why something like the BIP39 mnemoic format is not used for addresses as well. There was a lot of math involved in creating it, but I'm not sure how much user experience testing. I realized how much harder it is to copy random lette

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bech32 and P2SH²

2018-01-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
P2SH^2 wasn't a serious proposal-- I just suggested it as a thought experiment. I don't think it offers much useful in the context of Bitcoin today. Particularly since weight calculations have made output space relatively more expensive and fees are at quite non-negligible rates interest in "storin

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bech32 and P2SH²

2018-01-05 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
I've posted an initial draft of a possible Bech32 revision/replacement here: https://github.com/luke-jr/bips/blob/new_bech32_p2sh2/bip-bech32-p2sh2.mediawiki On Thursday 04 January 2018 2:23:05 PM Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I know I'm super-late to bring this up, but was there a reason

[bitcoin-dev] Bech32 and P2SH²

2018-01-04 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
I know I'm super-late to bring this up, but was there a reason Bech32 omitted the previously-discussed P2SH² improvements? Since deployment isn't too widespread yet, maybe it'd be worth a quick revision to add this? For those unfamiliar with the concept, the idea is to have the address include