📅 Original date posted:2011-12-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: Andy proposes using aliasing resolution services for Bitcoin URLs, but Walter questions the need for a single authorized institution to map IIBANs to Bitcoin addresses.
📝 Original message:Andy sounded very convincing when talking in favor of URLs. What's
wrong with his proposal?
2011/12/15, Walter Stanish <walter at stani.sh>:
> To my mind, it is far more likely that third party hosted services
> (such as providers of hosted wallet, conventional currency holding and
> exchange services) will provide aliasing resolution, and that these
> alias resolution services will operate on an alias at provider mechanism
> (for example, IIBAN and its 'institution' codes @ ).
Why don't just...
bitcoin://url.without.explicitly.specifying.provider
bitcoin://alias@provider
bitcoin://IIBAN@authorizedBitcoinInstitution ??
By the way, I don't like the fact that a single authorized institution
needs to map the IIBANs to bitcoin addresses.
Jorge Timón [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 02:47:15
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