Introducing Open Web Docs

Re:Introducing Open Web Docs by mike-cardwell on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:51AM (#25917174)

I understand that the person paying probably needs an account somewhere, so that payments can be batched together to reduce transaction fees.

However, there's no reason for me to have an account anywhere in order to receive bitcoin. All I need is a bitcoin address.

I don't want to sign up with Coil, Interledger, Uphold, Gatehub, or any other random third party, in order to receive bitcoin. And there is zero reason why I would have to.

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Re:Introducing Open Web Docs by jorangreef on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:58PM (#25919035)

Except that Interledger is not a "random third party", it's a protocol: https://interledger.org/

So that you can make payments to someone else regardless of whether they want to use Bitcoin or not.

I believe Interledger is the right level of abstraction for this, in the same way that you wouldn't want your email server to have to know or code against the lower protocols, e.g. Ethernet or WiFi, but only IP, TCP and SMTP. This way your email server can EHLO any email server, regardless of the network topology or underlying protocols.

Interledger does the same for payments.

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Re:Introducing Open Web Docs by mike-cardwell on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:10PM (#25919197)

Ok, so my bitcoin address is "bitcoin:1PQLtWnjUi1itHLG6QCQeHM3Nxua8pRsq1". What tag do I put in my HTML in order to receive payment from this system, without having to sign up anywhere?

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Re:Introducing Open Web Docs by dflock on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:35PM (#25920139)

You can just put that there - and then you hope that user agents implement this - or you can use interledger.

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Re:Introducing Open Web Docs by mike-cardwell on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:56AM (#25926252)

The documentation for Interledger appears to be for people who want to build software, not for people who want to send or receive money. And it talks about setting up accounts with xpring.io or rafiki.money.

I see no evidence that Interledger can be used for receiving money without having to set up accounts or run software. Plenty of evidence to the contrary.

As I said before, to receive bitcoin from one of these systems, there is nothing I should need to do other than advertise my bitcoin address. Anything more than that, and the system sucks.

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Re:Introducing Open Web Docs by dflock on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:54AM (#26086081)

> the system sucks

Correct.

What you want requires support in the user agent (web browser) though.

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