[bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:44:11AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On 09/29/2017 03:45 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote: > >> This feels redundant to me; the payment protocol already has an > >> expiration time. > > > > I'm well aware. As the payment protocol hasn't caught on - and doesn't fully > > overlap all the usecases that addresses do anyway - I think we should consider > > bringing this important feature to Bitcoin addresses too. > > Hasn't caught on? It is used for virtually all merchant transactions, > plus person to person transactions between Bitcoin Wallet users. "Virtually all"? I regularly pay with Bitcoin, and I haven't seen the payment protocol used in ages. Can you name some users of it? -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 455 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20170929/28b4c7ee/attachment.sig>