Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Walter Stanish
Why don't just... bitcoin://url.without.explicitly.specifying.provider bitcoin://alias@provider bitcoin://IIBAN@authorizedBitcoinInstitution ?? Andy sounded very convincing when talking in favor of URLs. What's wrong with his proposal? A URI identifies a resource and is in effect an alias

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2011 December 15 Thursday, Walter Stanish wrote: Andy sounded very convincing when talking in favor of URLs. What's wrong with his proposal? A URI identifies a resource and is in effect an alias itself. Identifying a resource is different from interacting with it. So, while

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Jorge Timón
2011/12/15, Walter Stanish wal...@stani.sh: Interaction is a requirement, since there seems to be a widely felt need to preserve anonymity through the use of temporary addresses. Generating a temporary address requires some actual processing to achieve, since the issuing of the new address

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Rick Wesson
Why don't just... bitcoin://url.without.explicitly.specifying.provider bitcoin://alias@provider bitcoin://IIBAN@authorizedBitcoinInstitution ?? By the way, I don't like the fact that a single authorized institution needs to map the IIBANs to bitcoin addresses. The IANA is a good

[Bitcoin-development] CDataStream

2011-12-15 Thread Michael Grønager
OK, I admit that this is *really* of little importance... But could someone with commit rights please update the CDataStream test table in the code. The arguments for the custom stream are just way off (stringstream wins by factor 10-20!). On OS X (g++) I get: Further, if you get(got) bad

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Amir Taaki
This is maybe the best idea. I added it: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0015#IP_Transactions Things I like about this: - IP transactions are useful, but have a security flaw. This mitigates their security problems. - The code for IP transactions is already in Satoshi client. If other clients

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread slush
I really like this proposal with standard URLs. All other proposals like DNS mapping or email aliases converted to URLs with some weird logic looks strange to me. Plain URLs (returning address in response body, redirecting to URI bitcoin:address or anything else) are very clear solution, easy to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Kyle Henderson
This is the first proposal I've seen regarding mapping something like user@host that actually makes sense to me. Bitcoin itself is decentralised by design, in my opinion it seems obvious that it needs to continue to maintain this feature. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, theymos they...@mm.st

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Matt Corallo
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:59 -0600, theymos wrote: Bitcoin already has code and a protocol for transactions to IP addresses. Why not reuse that for dynamic address lookup? Just a few changes are necessary to enable complete u...@server.com handling: I'm not against this, but I think its way

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Walter Stanish
Bitcoin itself is decentralised by design, in my opinion it seems obvious that it needs to continue to maintain this feature. What's the real issue? - People want to use alternate representations ('aliases') of bitcoin addresses, for various reasons. - The blockchain is the only way to