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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:48:15 -0400
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To: Gmail <will.yager@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP 70 extension
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I think there is nothing wrong with having a numeric memo field, which
is effectively what this is.  Structured rather than unstructured
data.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Gmail <will.yager@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:32, slush <slush@centrum.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like marketing bullshit to me. It does not have even statistical =
meaning; well, you can "save" a lot of satoshis, but nobody tell you that t=
he merchant cut you on BTC/USD exchange rate in tens of %.
>
> People would also abuse this feature in the same way amazon (and other sa=
les sites) abuse the definition of "save". For example, Amazon will indicat=
e that you're getting x% off by shopping at amazon, but all that number rea=
lly means is x% off MSRP. In reality, every website has the same price. I h=
ave no doubt that merchants would put similarly meaningless and/or misleadi=
ng data in this field.
>
> I agree, the memo field is appropriate for this data.
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