[Bitcoin-development] Instant / contactless payments

[Alex Kotenko]

Ah, I see, so it's only payee who has to enable it, payer side is on by
default. Then fine, situation is better than I thought. We'll look at
implementing BIP70 asap.

Best regards,
Alex Kotenko


2014-03-10 19:28 GMT+00:00 Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de>:

> On 03/10/2014 04:09 PM, Alex Kotenko wrote:
>
> > ​Yes, ​I'm certain about that we need to switch to BIP70 asap. As I said
> > earlier - support among the wallets is the biggest problem here really.
> > Only Andreas' Wallet supports it right now AFAIK, and even in there it's
> > only as "LABS feature", so will be turned off for most of users.
>
> Just a small clarification here. Bitcoin Wallet supports the customer
> side of the protocol since 2011, without any "Labs enabling"! This means
> you've got an install base of half a million devices that you can
> interoperate with. Sure, a lot of users will have Bluetooth switched
> off. The UI flow to enable it while paying is pretty smooth though.
>
> The merchant side used to have the Labs enabling but this is gone since
> a few weeks.
>
>
>
>
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