> excuse me if it was already discussed, but maybe using satoshis instead of
> decimal bitcoin would be better ?> choice? We all know about pains with
> proper handling decimal numbers across of all implementations - and > it's
> not only about json-rpc.
Yeah well it's up to the people who are making this stuff to decide :)
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Amir Taaki <zgen...@yahoo.com> wrote:
BIP 20 really has no support among implementations such as Bitcoin-Qt,
Electrum, MultiBit or Bitcoin-JS. As the most active and visible user facing
GUI projects (all with some form of URI Scheme), their opinion carries the most
weight. To a lesser degree Bitcoin-Qt has the large majority of users too
(although that's a line of reasoning I'd discourage).
>
>Normally we should probably Reject BIP 21 and re-submit a new standard (for
>history's sake), but as a) BIP 21 is largely a copy paste of BIP 20 sans some
>sections b) it is still a draft, probably the best thing here is if you all
>agree on something to run it by BlueMatt and then we'll make it the new BIP 21.
>
>I can see a consensus forming on most parts. Just the send private key is
>contentious, and there's the topic of adding a time to expire field for
>merchants (this is a very good idea IMO).
>
>Also BIP 20 is problematic because it is incompatible with about every
>standard on the web. All the HTML, URI and everything uses decimal numbers
>alone. I see no reason for breaking with tradition. Note that everytime I have
>to write Color or Vectorize (as a British speaker) in my code, I die a little
>inside. But it's convention and American English = International English. Also
>it would be cool if all code used a *real* international language (like
>Esperanto) but the world ain't perfect! We live in a decimal-counting
>English-speaking Windows-using God-worshipping world!
>
>(no offense to decimal-counting English-speaking Windows-using God-worshipping
>world- I do half those things too :)
>
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