Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

2012-12-20 Thread Stephen Pair
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > > you may find yourself in a situation needing to parse a protobuf > > message in a web browser > Nothing stops you converting them into whatever form you want on the > server side. If you don't care about the signature checking then it's > no

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

2012-12-20 Thread Mike Hearn
Thanks for the thoughts. For those who don't know, Stephen works for BitPay. > My first observation is that the proposal is too heavily oriented around a > merchant/customer interaction. The term "merchant" is just being used to mean the entity requesting the payment. I'm hopeful that in future m

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

2012-12-20 Thread Stephen Pair
Here are my (mostly half baked) thoughts on the payments protocol proposal. My first observation is that the proposal is too heavily oriented around a merchant/customer interaction. I think it's equally important to consider the person to person scenarios. It would be very cool if people could s