Author: Mike Hearn 2014-12-04 18:04:21
Published on: 2014-12-04T18:04:21+00:00
The author has written a Javascript program to print minimal protobufs to base64 for multisig and regular pay to address outputs. However, it is recommended to have an expiry time for practical usage. An HD-iterating payment request would require additional flags and fields but should only add a few bytes to the protocol. The author suggests that the above strings are short enough to set as a username in a mining program to maintain Eligius's general UX. To generate these codes, building specialized one-off SPV wallets using bitcoinj is easy with a template app and video tutorial on how to customize it. The final result is like Lighthouse, where running a program and getting an EXE installer or MSI for Windows, a DMG for MacOS, and a .deb for Linux is possible. Producing a GUI that lets users build a base64 encoded payment protocol request that supports HD iteration for one or more keys, along with a little BIP70 extension that says "although this output is a multisig output, please actually create a p2sh output," would make a nice starter project. It could also act as a watching wallet and plot a graph of mining payouts over time. One individual expressed interest in creating a shared HD wallet format to allow different devices to generate new addresses using standardized HD multisig chain-description formats. The format would describe HD chains in a separate section rather than in-line with the script. Unfortunately, there are still many details to work through before having a concrete proposal. Another individual proposed a solution to convey P2SH HD chains by creating a simple series of tokens indicating either an HD chain or literal script content.
Updated on: 2023-06-09T14:32:36.573098+00:00