Roy Badami [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-01-13 📝 Original message:> I was thinking that ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-01-13
📝 Original message:> I was thinking that people could upload a payment protocol file somewhere
> once (like to their personal web page, or shared via dropbox or google
> drive or some custom new pastebin style service), and then just encode a
> regular bitcoin URI into the qrcode on the billboard.

That does require trusting the third party not to later tamper with
the payment request, though. (I'm assuming that a signed payment
request is not always going to be all that useful in the case of
private individuals, even assuming the payee is willing to sign up for
one.)

> Likewise, I could attach a payment request to an email and send it to you,
> and now you can pay me whenever you want forever.

That certainly sounds like a plausible use case. You do still have
the problem that e-mail is an insecure channel, but it's no worse than
exchanging Bitcoin addreses over e-mail as things stand at the
moment.

roy