[Bitcoin-development] instant confirmation via payment protocol backwards compatible proto buffer extension

2014-06-14 Thread Lawrence Nahum
Hello, I had the pleasure to meet some of you in Amsterdam and/or to speak on #bitcoin-dev but this is actually my first message to the mailing list - I feel a bit clumsy so apologies in advance if I make any mistake :) Quick introduction/background: my name is Lawrence Nahum and I'm the founder

Re: [Bitcoin-development] instant confirmation via payment protocol backwards compatible proto buffer extension

2014-06-14 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Just a quick comment: The supports_instant field seems redundant to me. First, as per your spec, you can derive it from trusted_instant_providers. And second, why do you need it at all? Protobuf is designed so it will simply ignore fields you don't know. So you can just send the instant_* fields i