Re: Payments request cryptocurrencies support

> Have you seen Google’s Android payment app integration into Android web browsers

Yes, it is almost the same as the implementation that I was thinking about.

> It sounds like you proposal is that W3C work on a new payment method for bitcoin. Is that accurate?

Yes. I propose to add new payment method for bitcoin. As payment details merchant can path bitcoin invoice. As payment result payment app can return transaction hash. Also, it may be extended for other popular cryptocurrencies Litecoin, Etherium. I can write in details how it can work for cryptocurrencies if it needed.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org <mailto:ij@w3.org>> wrote:

> On Sep 18, 2017, at 1:13 PM, Ярослав Панасенко <yar.panasenko@gmail.com <mailto:yar.panasenko@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Thank you for the response.
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> > Is there an organization that the bitcoin community, for example, could accept as hosting the URL?
>
> The idea of Bitcoin is to avoid central authority. There some communities that support project like https://bitcoin.org/en/ <https://bitcoin.org/en/>, but they can’t be official representatives. Same with most of other cryptocurrencies. For example, now for interaction between merchants and payment apps in Bitcoin special URL scheme is used, but no one can control what apps can implement this scheme. I tend to believe that cryptocurrencies support can be implemented like https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-method-basic-card/ <https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-method-basic-card/>.

Ok (That is: a short string hosted by W3C.)

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> For last few weeks I was thinking about how we can implement the standard interface for cryptocurrency payments between native merchant apps and payment apps on Android and iOS.

Have you seen Google’s

   Android payment app integration into Android web browsers
   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1izV4uC-tiRJG3JLooqY3YRLU22tYOsLTNq0P_InPJeE/edit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1izV4uC-tiRJG3JLooqY3YRLU22tYOsLTNq0P_InPJeE/edit>


> Making it work with Payment Request API will be a great option. So I am really interested in adding cryptocurrencies into Payment Request standard.

To help with the upcoming discussion, I think the model we have in mind is that payment-method specifics will be expressed
via individual payment methods (rather than in the Payment Request API directly).
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> May I create an issue on https://github.com/w3c/payment-request <https://github.com/w3c/payment-request> to open discussion?

It sounds like you proposal is that W3C work on a new payment method for bitcoin. Is that accurate?

Ian


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