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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin pointers
JOSE FEMENIAS CAÑUELO via bitcoin-dev
2017-06-11 20:05:24 UTC
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Hi,

I’ve been doing some work lately to create a specification for bitcoin pointers.

They can be used to point to transactions, inputs, outputs or some internal items within them.
The proposals strive for simplicity and user friendliness over compactness or other attributes.

There are three proposals, each of which builds upon the previous one, namely:

a) Canonical Pointers
The basic proposal.They look like this example: ***@170.1/179-631-520
Here is a link to the Google Docs document -> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBN4wKFYtgvDxV4DrWUdNe9Xqmb8GVxoIGDKRkY9Xr4/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBN4wKFYtgvDxV4DrWUdNe9Xqmb8GVxoIGDKRkY9Xr4/edit?usp=sharing>

b) Mnemonic Pointers
They build on Canonical Pointers and the dictionary provided in bip39 to use words instead of numbers.
The previous Canonical pointer can thus be expressed as ***@best.ability <mailto:***@best.ability>/biology-exclude-donate
Here is a link to the Google Docs document -> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wLK2_UrRzK0eshkDntUIbVlIdswzuHmYNELOePDjtPY/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wLK2_UrRzK0eshkDntUIbVlIdswzuHmYNELOePDjtPY/edit?usp=sharing>

c) Domain Pointers
They build on the Domain Name Registration system to encode a pointer to a Canonical Pointer as in ***@example.com <mailto:***@example.com>
Here is a link to the Google Docs document -> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KY7rM090oKzGn8NAz4XFxQnfkyD5gs4V6vpbfdw92RM/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KY7rM090oKzGn8NAz4XFxQnfkyD5gs4V6vpbfdw92RM/edit?usp=sharing>

I haven’t had any peer review yet, so it is very likely that some small or big problems can be found.

I’d welcome any feedback from the community.

Best regards,


José Femenías Cañuelo
Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev
2017-06-11 20:19:20 UTC
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Hi José
Post by JOSE FEMENIAS CAÑUELO via bitcoin-dev
a) Canonical Pointers
Here is a link to the Google Docs document -> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBN4wKFYtgvDxV4DrWUdNe9Xqmb8GVxoIGDKRkY9Xr4/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBN4wKFYtgvDxV4DrWUdNe9Xqmb8GVxoIGDKRkY9Xr4/edit?usp=sharing>
A similar/related proposal got posted last month : https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014396.html <https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014396.html>
The Bech32 encoded transaction position reference allows to solve similar use cases (tx pointers) with a strong error-detection/correction using just 14 chars (encoded state, including error correction / unencoded 40bits).

/jonas

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