[Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol: BIP 70, 71, 72

Roy Badami roy at gnomon.org.uk
Wed Jul 31 08:45:39 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:28:25PM +1000, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> I've turned the preliminary payment protocol spec into three BIPs:
> 
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070 : Network protocol / messages
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0071 : MIME types for the messages
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0072 : bitcoin: URI extension


Is it envisaged to be possible/sensible to have a URI that is *only* a
payment request?  i.e. something like the following (although I'm not
sure this is a valid URI):

bitcoin:?request=https%3A%2F%2Fmerchant.com%2Fpay.php%3Fh%3D2a8628fc2fbe

roy




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