Matt Corallo [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-12-17 🗒️ Summary of this message: Firstbits ...
📅 Original date posted:2011-12-17
🗒️ Summary of this message: Firstbits should not be supported as it does not scale and incentivizes spamming the chain for an address.
📝 Original message:On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 12:14 +0100, Jorge Timón wrote:
> Don't know much about QR codes, but I thought they have a length limitation.
> Why jav wants to use not just addresses but firstbits then?
Under no circumstances should the use of firstbits ever be supported.
It doesn't scale, not even close, especially as we (hopefully) move
towards SPV clients. Also, it provides incentives for people to spam
the chain to get a firstbits address. Never should that be supported.
Matt
🗒️ Summary of this message: Firstbits should not be supported as it does not scale and incentivizes spamming the chain for an address.
📝 Original message:On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 12:14 +0100, Jorge Timón wrote:
> Don't know much about QR codes, but I thought they have a length limitation.
> Why jav wants to use not just addresses but firstbits then?
Under no circumstances should the use of firstbits ever be supported.
It doesn't scale, not even close, especially as we (hopefully) move
towards SPV clients. Also, it provides incentives for people to spam
the chain to get a firstbits address. Never should that be supported.
Matt