slush [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-06-24 📝 Original message:Sounds like marketing ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-06-24
📝 Original message:Sounds like marketing bullshit to me. It does not have even statistical
meaning; well, you can "save" a lot of satoshis, but nobody tell you that
the merchant cut you on BTC/USD exchange rate in tens of %.

Payment protocol should not contain these fictional data, which has no real
meaning for the payment itself. Put these marketing claims to memo field
instead...

slush


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:

> It also seems like it would be subject to instant inflation, as it's
>> unprovable
>
>
> The user knows the price that is on the website or menu, they know the
> price they actually paid ... if the numbers don't add up that would seem to
> be pretty easily detectable. But sure it's only for marketing. I think the
> comment makes it clear it's just for fun.
>
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