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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Proposal: bitcoin payment protocol
by
jimrandomh
on 03/10/2011, 12:51:53 UTC
Related discussions in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46429.0, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45211.0, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46538.0. The basic idea - allowing more-complex scripts to control the conditions under which coins are released - is good. However, I prefer the versions that keep the address format the same, or at least very similar. Allowing complicated addresses puts burden on Bitcoin-handling web sites and breaks compatibility in ways that it doesn't need to be broken.