- From: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:57:30 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "public-webpayments@w3.org" <public-webpayments@w3.org>
Hi, I've been discussing with Melvin Carvalho (melvster) about the possibility to get a bitcoin URI accepted. Much thought has gone into drafting a standard which can be viewed here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme There's a competing URI scheme: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/X-btc An example URI like: bitcoin:1NS17iag9jJgTHD1VXjvLCEnZuQ3rJED9L?amount=40.12 Contains the destination address. Bitcoin addresses always begin with 1 and the last 4 bytes are an easy to compute (sha256) checksum. That means they are in an easily verifiable format. In the future we may have named destinations rather than abstract bitcoin addresses: bitcoin:genjix@foo.org?amount=40.12 So the standard must include some rules for what is a bitcoin address (begins with 1 and last 4 bytes are a valid checksum), as well as the possibility for future named destinations (must contain @ and a valid domain name). Based on the info above (multiple schemes, corner case), I think the way forwards is: 1) I gather info 2) Write new standards document while consulting with Melvin 3) Present it to this group 4) Propose it to IANA Amir Taaki
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