[bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173

[Peter Todd]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:44:11AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On 09/29/2017 03:45 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> >> This feels redundant to me; the payment protocol already has an
> >> expiration time.
> > 
> > I'm well aware. As the payment protocol hasn't caught on - and doesn't fully
> > overlap all the usecases that addresses do anyway - I think we should consider
> > bringing this important feature to Bitcoin addresses too.
> 
> Hasn't caught on? It is used for virtually all merchant transactions,
> plus person to person transactions between Bitcoin Wallet users.

"Virtually all"?

I regularly pay with Bitcoin, and I haven't seen the payment protocol used in
ages.

Can you name some users of it?

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