On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:01:00AM +0000, Gary Rowe wrote: > Personally, I feel that simple is best and while a block number represents > Bitcoin's pulse, there is no guarantee that a block will be discovered at > any particular moment. From a merchant perspective the main point of the > expires field is to limit risk against currency movement (immediate cash > out) or inventory movement (time limited offer). I have difficulty seeing a > good use case that would need a block. People have been co-ordinating > events based on a UTC timestamp for decades and I think we should stick > with it.
For merchant purposes, I believe URI's containing a static pubkeyhash-address are only a temporary solution until more elaborate solutions that deal with all concerns appear (tagging transactions, feedback to the merchant, making the receiver responsible for inclusion, certificates that a payment was accepted, authentication, ...). I believe static addresses are too limited for this purpose, and we shouldn't be trying to extend them with too many features. There have been discussions about more dynamic approaches (such as HTTP communication to negotiate an address) here, and I've written my own proposal as well (https://gist.github.com/1237788). The details are not really relevant at this time, but these dynamic approaches seem a much better way of dealing with what you're trying to add to the bitcoin URI system now. My 2 cents: keep bitcoin URI's simple for now. -- Pieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
