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Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 19:14:13 +0000
From: yanmaani@cock.li
To: Prayank <prayank@tutanota.de>, Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Automated and Secure Communication
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The reason Samourai did not propose a BIP is that that was not a 
proposal to improve the Bitcoin protocol.

You could write a specification for it, but this mailing list is 
probably the wrong venue.

On 2020-12-06 18:20, Prayank via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I know there have been lot of controversial and heated discussions
> involving Samourai in past. Ignoring everything including the tweets
> in which Samourai team mentioned no interest in proposing a BIP
> related to automated and secure communication used in Soroban, I
> wanted to know if enough people would be interested in a BIP because
> it may help other bitcoin projects in future.
> 
> Tweets: https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1334977957157367810
> [1]
> 
> https://twitter.com/SamouraiDev/status/1335103101188104194 [2]
> 
> Ben also tweeted that a BIP would make sense:
> https://twitter.com/benthecarman/status/1334977096079306753 [3]
> 
> I think we should keep all the controversial things aside and do
> everything that helps Bitcoin. It's mentioned in the medium article
> that it can help other projects like joinmarket, coinswap, snickr etc.
> 
> https://link.medium.com/uBvIJUSLQbb
> 
> The source code for a client library in Java is available here
> https://code.samourai.io/wallet/soroban-client-java and the source
> code for the Go based server component is available here
> https://code.samourai.io/wallet/samourai-soroban
> 
> Let me know if a BIP for such implementation to be used by other
> bitcoin projects makes sense and if anyone willing to help me in
> creating a BIP.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Prayank
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1334977957157367810?s=19
> [2] https://twitter.com/SamouraiDev/status/1335103101188104194?s=19
> [3] https://twitter.com/benthecarman/status/1334977096079306753?s=19
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