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

E willbefull ewillbefull at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 23:30:46 UTC 2013


I think it's important to expect PaymentRequest-only bitcoin URIs in the
future. Some types of payments (exotic transactions) may not make sense to
have a single fallback address. Or, a page with a bitcoin URI link may be
relying on a separate service provider to assemble the transaction.


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Roy Badami <roy at gnomon.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> I think we'll want a bitcoin address in there for a long time for
> backwards compatibility.
>
> If web browser support for arbitrary MIME types is strong enough (I
> haven't tested), then a payment request can be initiated with just an
> anchor tag:
>   <a href="https://merchant.com/pay.php?3D2a8628fc2fbe"
> type="application/bitcoin-paymentrequest">
>
> Doing it that way saves a http round-trip.
>
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