Re: Zero Click Bitcoin Micropayments using HTTP 402

On 2014-12-27 17:45, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>     Melvin, I don't feel an urge to shoot down anything, I just want to understand how things work.
>     Since this list is intended for creating input to payment standards it is a reasonable ambition.
>     I guess the other folks here then understand what you are doing, I must confess I still don't :-(
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> I'm just associating balances with browser certificates, then allowing
 > access to premium content to those with a positive balance, and giving a 402 to those that do not.

To me that's a nonsensical description that fills no purpose in a payment standardization context.
You always need to specify the entities involved.

In addition, I don't even think the idea using HTTP 402 actually buys you anything since it
has no meaning in a browser (and thus for the user) which means that there must always be
a *proxy* involved which does the actual work.  That's OK but such a proxy can use whatever
"insufficient funds" return indication to carry out its work since this like all other AJAX-
based schemes anyway builds on a convention.

Anyway, without a trusted UI and/or application concept we have nothing that has any chance of
getting traction on the traditional web; it is better dealing with Android and iOS which are
MUCH more suited for payments than web browsers.

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>     To me the eternal question (in this context NB), is simply "who is doing what and with whom and why"
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>     The Zero Click guys certainly didn't bother much about explaining that, maybe it's a trade secret?
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> Just a proof of concept I think.

A very bad one since they (apparently) hijack the browser and "reserve" HTTP 402 for themselves.

Anders

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>     Anders
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Received on Sunday, 28 December 2014 07:05:59 UTC