Annoyed by Bitpay's exclusive use of the Payment Protocol? Announcing the Payment Protocol Interface, a way to use the Payment Protocol without using a wallet that supports it.

Annoyed by Bitpay's exclusive use of the Payment Protocol? Announcing the Payment Protocol Interface, a way to use the Payment Protocol without using a wallet that supports it. /u/achow101 Bitpay's recent announcement of exclusively using the Bitcoin Payment Protocol (BIP 70) has caused some irritation. No longer can you just send to an address. Now you must use a wallet that supports the protocol, but switching wallets is not all that easy to do. Well never fear, today I am announcing the Bitcoin Payment Protocol Interface. This is a piece of software which lets you interact with the payment protocol manually so that you don't have to switch to using a new wallet software. The program will take in a bitcoin URI (such as the ones that Bitpay gives out) and it will fetch the payment request data. It then decodes it and shows it to you. You will get to see the addresses to send to and how much. Then, by just following the instructions, you will be able to complete the protocol manually instead of needing a wallet which supports it. The project is written in Python and has both a command line interface and a GUI. It can be found on Github: http://ift.tt/2C1yJFh The project is open source and available under the MIT License. Parts of this project are borrowed from Electrum; those parts are also licensed under the MIT License. submitted by /u/achow101 [link] [comments] Reddit