Re: Just off the wire

The browser should be neutral to which unit and which ledger system is used
by the payer and payee. It seems to me that the writer for coindesk.com
would thus feel comfortable making a statement like: W3C doesn't care about
Bitcoin. :-/

Joseph

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On 1 November 2014 01:25, Pindar Wong <pindar.wong@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.coindesk.com/wc3s-web-payments-redesign-bypass-bitcoin/
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> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Was kind of confused after reading that!
>
> I do feel that the charter and use cases are underweight crypto
> currencies.  Those document read like the group is unaware either that
> crypto currencies exist, or that it is the major innovation payments in the
> last decade.  Not all together accurate, but neither a million miles away
> from the mark.
>
> It's not all that clear how much of a role there is for crypto currency
> work in this group, or how welcome it would be.  As someone working in this
> area, I'd like to follow this work, but am unsure how much or how little to
> participate in the core discussion.
>
> The piece didnt really go in to the fact that very few crypto firms have
> engaged the payments group.  Either as W3C members, as individuals on the
> mailing list (although Amir has posted a few times), or at the workshop.
> This group has been publicized well on bitcoin mailing lists.
>
> The web is generally open ended enough for there to be a place in the
> standard for crypto currencies, even though it's not explicitly stated.
>
> Personally I will probably take 80% of the work done here, and create 20%
> a new standard that should be closely compatible with w3c payments, work
> with bitcoin and other cryptos, and hopefully be a basis for v2 of the
> spec.  But that's probably looking at sometime closer to 2020 ... hopefully
> more btc people will engage during this time, indeed, I've had
> conversations with core devs in the last week about a documenting RESTful
> APIs which are starting to go into the core in the next weeks.
>
>
>


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