From jameson.lopp at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 23:46:29 2017 From: jameson.lopp at gmail.com (Jameson Lopp) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:46:29 -0500 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Comments on BOLT#11 In-Reply-To: References: <87zi6ou4kt.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <874losfrjw.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Message-ID: HTLC.me is run by Alex Bosworth; I'll ping him. On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Jonathan Underwood < junderwood at bitcoinbank.co.jp> wrote: > iirc they are using the description as a way to join the user data and the > payment hash on their end. > > htlc me is one node but separates its balance into user accounts that > exist outside lightning. I think the identifier is used so when their > backend checks the payment request status, the user info is right there in > their local lnd RPC response rather than having to store their own database > separately. > > 2017?12?16?(?) 8:31 Rusty Russell : > >> Jonathan Underwood writes: >> > Additional comment: we should make a requirement to hide text in the >> > description under certain conditions. >> > >> > ie. "A reader MUST hide information surrounded by curly brackets {} >> > including >> > the brackets themselves from the UI, and only make the information >> avaiable >> > internally." >> > >> > I think a lot of people will want to include extra data in their payment >> > requests' description. >> > >> > I think HTLC.ME uses it and maybe bitrefill? (correct me if I'm wrong.) >> >> OK, HTLC.ME (cool site!) uses a description of: >> >> {"generic_id":"ada00363-50b6-4281-82dd-d274393439f1"} >> >> Which I really don't understand. This field is literally only to >> display to the user, for them to validate it's what they wanted. The >> recipient never gets it back. >> >> If I knew who ran HTLC.ME, I'd ask them to fix it: they should have a >> description entry field in their "Request Payment" form. It could >> default to "Test payment ada00363-50b6-4281-82dd-d274393439f1", but >> they're in spec violation at the moment. >> >> > Perhaps adding an "extra data" tag? >> >> Easy to do, if I knew why they wanted it. >> >> Thanks! >> Rusty. >> > -- > ----------------- > Jonathan Underwood > ??????? ?????????????? > ----------------- > > ??????????????????????????????? > > ??: 0xCE5EA9476DE7D3E45EBC3FDAD998682F3590FEA3 > > _______________________________________________ > Lightning-dev mailing list > Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: