Re: [Lightning-dev] QR of node information

2018-04-12 Thread Robert Olsson
hello all, yes the biggest advantage of bech32 would be for making small QR codes, where it does much more savings than in ascii. (you could still print the hex underneath the QR code of course if you want to enter it manually. personally i would prefer bech32 there as well because of its advantag

Re: [Lightning-dev] QR of node information

2018-04-11 Thread Rusty Russell
Robert Olsson writes: > Hello all, > > I seem to not find a bolt regarding the QR code of node@ip:port > > It seems eclair only supports the format hex@ip:port format, and i haven't > tried any other mobile wallets. I anticipate a move away from "manually connect to node" and this wart will be le

Re: [Lightning-dev] QR of node information

2018-04-09 Thread Igor Cota
Hi all, On 9 April 2018 at 11:47, Corné Plooy via Lightning-dev < lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Is this really only about reducing the size of QR codes? How many > percent reduction do you think you can accomplish with your approach? I > think, when it comes to reducing QR co

Re: [Lightning-dev] QR of node information

2018-04-09 Thread Corné Plooy via Lightning-dev
Why put everything in bech32? It hurts readability. The only possible advantage is that data inside the bech32 blob can be digitally signed in a convenient way. If you don't need that, I'd keep your data ourside the bech32 blob, in a (expert-)human-readable format. Why not follow a regular URL fo

[Lightning-dev] QR of node information

2018-04-07 Thread Robert Olsson
Hello all, I seem to not find a bolt regarding the QR code of node@ip:port It seems eclair only supports the format hex@ip:port format, and i haven't tried any other mobile wallets. I thought there would be support for bech32 nodeid:s to keep the QR small, but it doesn't seem that way. If it is