eclair-mobile bip-0072 / bip-0070 support

bip-0072 / bip-0070 support

Open jeremyawon opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

some merchants use the bip-0072 payment URI extension (e.g., bitpay).

eclair-wallet currently does not support this.

the semi-interactive bip-0070 protocol which bip-0072 URI's lead to is a UX complication, but would extend usability of eclair.

is there an official stance regarding adding support?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0072.mediawiki

Dec 04 '18 22:12 jeremyawon

"What is BIP-70 and why is it controversial? Why doesn't BitPay implement the more universal BIP-21?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZKydqYu1RY

Dec 05 '18 10:12 githorray

aaah, fascinating. thanks for pointing me to this @githorray!

regardless, it would be nice to hear the official word from acinq regarding support for this.

Dec 05 '18 10:12 jeremyawon

We'd like to support BIP 70 payment URIs but for now it's quite low on our priority list.

Dec 17 '18 10:12 dpad85

@jeremyawon Also check this https://blog.samouraiwallet.com/post/169222582782/bitpay-qr-codes-are-no-longer-valid-important.

Please ask the merchants to switch to another payment processor: https://github.com/alexk111/awesome-bitcoin-payment-processors.

If you have to pay Bitpay invoices use https://github.com/alexk111/DeBitpay/.

Jan 25 '19 02:01 alexk111