Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Alan Reiner
That's fine. I just want to make sure it's considered for inclusion at some point, because I really hope to leverage the "identity" mechanism I just described, and it's much easier if it's part of a standard instead of convincing others to go around the standard with us. I have not spent much tim

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Gavin Andresen
As Mike said: the payment protocol doesn't use bitcoin addresses under the covers. It is also designed to be easily extensible, so if you want the server to send the wallet software a public key and multiplier, then add "publickey" and "multiplier" optional fields to the PaymentDetails (or maybe O

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
It's BIP specified and implemented in Bitcoin-Qt so now is the time to start :) I'm hoping that most wallets can announce support near simultaneously On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Alan Reiner wrote: > That's fine. I just want to make sure it's considered for inclusion at > some point,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
Payment protocol is locked down for v1 already. But did you read it? It doesn't use addresses anywhere. Payments are specified in terms of a list of outputs which can contain any script. Of course it could be a pay-to-address script, but pay-to-address uses more bytes in the chain and there isn't a