Re: [w3c/browser-payment-api] Identifiers or Locators (#150)

On 2016-04-23 04:20, kirkalx wrote:
> If de-referencing is kept optional, my hope is that we can support a
> class of payment methods that are fully decentralized (e.g. payment via
> direct access to the Bitcoin p2p network), perhaps via some sort of
> .onion URL or similar...

payment method identifiers and payment methods are two very different 
things. this issue is *only* about the identifiers, *not* about how the 
payment process itself works. i think you are mixing these two things.

> I believe this would satisfy all parts of the communities associated
> with various cryptocurrencies in a way that a URL assigned to the w3c
> working group would not. How to do this without a separate centralized
> registry is the problem of course.

the question of whether a payment method works centralized or not is not 
affected by the question of whether payment identifiers (and how they 
look like) are managed in a registry or not.


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