Author: Gavin Andresen 2013-07-31 23:38:11
Published on: 2013-07-31T23:38:11+00:00
In an email conversation from August 1, 2013, E willbefull expressed that they believe PaymentRequest-only bitcoin URIs will become increasingly important. They argued that some types of payments (exotic transactions) may not make sense to have a single fallback address. However, Gavin Andresen pointed out that P2SH addresses already support all exotic transactions. Additionally, E willbefull suggested that a page with a bitcoin URI link may rely on a separate service provider to assemble the transaction. Gavin Andresen clarified that the payment transaction will always be created by the customer's wallet software. If PaymentRequests take over the world and there is 100% wallet software support, then Andresen stated he would be happy to write another BIP that says that a bitcoin: URI can be just bitcoin:?request=http...
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