Andreas Schildbach [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2016-06-23 📝 Original message:On 06/22/2016 04:25 PM, ...
📅 Original date posted:2016-06-23
📝 Original message:On 06/22/2016 04:25 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>
> Only large merchants are able to maintain such an infrastructure; (even
> Coinbase recently failed at it, they forgot to update their
> certificate). For end users that is completely unpractical.
>
>
> Payment protocol is for when you buy stuff from purse.io
> <http://purse.io>;, not really needed for face-to face transfers, end
> users, IMO.
What Andy said, plus there is an (unencrypted) version of BIP70 via
Bluetooth already in place. And its used in several thousand
face-to-face trades per day.
📝 Original message:On 06/22/2016 04:25 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>
> Only large merchants are able to maintain such an infrastructure; (even
> Coinbase recently failed at it, they forgot to update their
> certificate). For end users that is completely unpractical.
>
>
> Payment protocol is for when you buy stuff from purse.io
> <http://purse.io>;, not really needed for face-to face transfers, end
> users, IMO.
What Andy said, plus there is an (unencrypted) version of BIP70 via
Bluetooth already in place. And its used in several thousand
face-to-face trades per day.