[Bitcoin-ml] Proposal to deploy cashaddr January, 14

[Amaury Séchet]

Hi,

There is one bit reserved in the version field so it can be leveraged to
add this kind of features in the future if needed. I don't think we shoudl
significantly change the pec at this point in time.

Amaury Séchet

2017-11-17 1:27 GMT+01:00 Bitcartel Software <simon at bitcartel.com>:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to propose reserving a few extra bytes as part of either
> (a) address type, or (b) the payload.
>
> This would help future-proof the address format for new features which
> wallets can choose to implement.
>
> How these bytes are used can be specified by the community at a later date.
>
> One example is address flags.
>
> As implemented in the CoinSpark colored coin protocol, address flags
> [1] help sending wallets know what
> features the recipient's wallet supports.
>
> For example, if the sender is transferring OP_RETURN based assets, the
> sending wallet will verify that the
> recipient's address supports assets, to avoid a non-supporting wallet
> from accidentally sending on those assets.
>
> Another example is a feature like out-of-band messaging, where not all
> wallets support messaging, so the
> sending wallet would only enable the message UI field if the recipient
> address indicated it supported messages.
>
> [1] https://coinspark.org/developers/coinspark-addresses/
>
> Best Regards,
> Simon
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Amaury Séchet via bitcoin-ml
> <bitcoin-ml at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Dear Bitcoin Cash community,
> >
> > Bitcoin Cash has been in need for a new address format for quite some
> time.
> > There is an immediate problem as people mistakenly send BCH to BTC
> address
> > and vice versa, which is made worse by the fact that segwit on the BTC
> chain
> > had the brilliant idea to leverage outputs that anyone can spend, which
> make
> > the recovery of the funds delicate on the Bitcoin Cash chain.
> >
>
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