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Example: The single biggest payment processor only takes BIP70 payments. Someone with little coding experience should be able to easily build a BIP70 enabled service. Im a sftwr engineer & don't know where to start..
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BIP70 is one part of it, much like BIP32, BIP39, sort-of BIP43, and BIP44 all make up a "wallet."
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Well, yes... But my point is that there are no frameworks or tools to easily build a wallet with BIP70 support. No tutorials or guides, even. You literally have to do it from scratch.
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Search for it. Literally 5 docs and 3 open source wallets pop up on the first page 🤔
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Uh, you got a link (or 8)? The closest I could find last night was bitcoinj's API - which is for BTC only, unless I am mistaken.
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BitcoinJ, Electrum, bread. Converting between BTC and BCH should be the easy part.
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Lol, yeah, so the easiest method is to rewrite a BTC framework/wallet to run on BCH? My point is made. Should not be this hard to build a service that can interact w/ the #1 merchant.
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Are you being serious? Change “bitcoin” to “bitcoincash” in the HTTP header and URI.
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Bitbox is a great step in the right direction, but it is still very barebones. Not everyone should have to understand the fine details of the protocol to use it.
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It's a simple matter of abstraction. Every software protocol ever has solved this same issue with innumerable frameworks, APIs, etc. Something BCH currently severely lacks.
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Are you serious? Do you know what an API is? The point is I shouldn't have to figure out how a complex wallet /API implementation works & change it to BCH to build a simple service.
Simon Van Gelder
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"You stood on the shoulders of geniuses [...] and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you’re selling it..."
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These aren't dinosaurs. This is a global public protocol that the whole world needs to be able to easily build on. And soon - we need massive adoption b4 block reward drops too low.
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...must go faster... 😂
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My misunderstanding. I was looking at your question from the server side, not the client.
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As a result there's only about 5 wallets that can even make payments to the biggest BCH merchant...