[Bitcoin-development] Version bytes "2.0"

[Wladimir]

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>
> That's cool. I hope Matts change gets merged soon. Then the issue becomes
> how do people find out about this capability? Expecting people to learn how
> to hand-craft Bitcoin links won't work. But all modern operating systems
> support copy/paste and drag/drop of rich content. Qt probably makes it easy
> to expose an UI like this:
>
>    *Pay me*    [Copy to clipboard]
>
> Clicking the link in the UI would pop up an alert saying something like
>
>    "You can drag this link to an email, chat window or editing program."
>

Good idea! This could be integrated with the QR-code generation (
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/629) which adds "create a payment
link" functionality (but currently only "exports" this link as a QR code).

Wladimir
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