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Exactly. Needs another layer of abstraction to handle competing crypto currencies. BTC was the first, but won't be the last.

• pjscott 14y ago
  Something analogous to the way magnet URIs are used as an extensible scheme for peer-to-peer filesharing links? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
  • pixelcort 14y ago
    Right; perhaps it would be better to introduce a generic URI scheme for paying: pay:?currency=btc&address=1BlaH&amount=1.0
    • pizzeys 14y ago
      Then you need some standardisation on what 'currency' is anyway, and if you use ISO 4217 you shut out Bitcoin.