📅 Original date posted:2017-05-09
📝 Original message:
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 11:07:28AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hey, invoices are totally human readable, for some humans :)
>
I know Pieter can decode bech32 on the fly :-)
> But a good point. So let's use BTC with m (milli), u (micro), n (nano)
> and p (pico). In theory we could allow . in that part, but I think it's
> too distracting.
>
> At $1600/BTC:
>
> 0.01c = 62500p
> 1c = 6250n
> $1 = 625u
> $1000 = 625m
Perfect, even though your price is already outdated, and it currently
is $1700/BTC. I mention the conversion confusion because I often run
into that problem myself (and keep typing 0s until the client
complains).
> > Other than that, I really like the proposal, it's clean and
> > extensible, and it supports testnet ;-) I also like using bech32 as a
> > serialization format, if people also support the DNS bootstrapping and
> > node lookup they can simply reuse that dependency, and it is a bit
> > shorter than hex. We might consider also supporting a different, human
> > readable, encoding though (without changing the signature
> > serialization). And finally we could directly derive a URI scheme from
> > the bech32 encoded string by replacing the '1' with a ':', but we can
> > spin that discussion off in another thread ^^
>
> OK, if people like this change, I think we can move start turning this
> into BOLT 10?
Oops, I think I did what Luke hates, and sort of self assigned a
proposal number... I can of course assign the DNS bootstrap BOLT
another number.
Cheers,
Christian
Christian Decker [ARCHIVE] /
npub1wt…gtuyn
2023-06-09 12:47:12
in reply to nevent1q…klk3
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