Author: Andreas Schildbach 2017-09-28 14:13:48
Published on: 2017-09-28T14:13:48+00:00
In a discussion on the bitcoin-dev mailing list, Sjors Provoost brought up the redundancy of having an expiration time in BIP-173 addresses when the payment protocol already has one. However, he pointed out that emailing or printing a bitcoin address is much simpler than using the BIP-70 payment protocol, which involves back-and-forth communication. The payment request message already serves as an invoice and can be easily shared. Furthermore, it would be problematic to include an expiry date in a BIP-173 address within a payment request because wallets would not be able to parse it without violating the BIP70 specification.
Updated on: 2023-06-12T19:08:53.275395+00:00