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9/12

Something that always bothered me is calling #Bitcoin addresses, addresses instead of invoices.

"Invoice" is more descriptive, and discourages address reuse.

But we can see now where the name came from.

IP address -> Bitcoin address.
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Alex Waltz 2y ago

10/12

Even though there were some plans to improve this by Satoshi, this never happened and it got removed.

In the end the cons severely outweigh the pros and it just made more sense to build such functionalities outside of Bitcoin.

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Alex Waltz 2y ago

11/12

Some current ideas that offer some of the pros of Pay-to-IP:

- BIP47 - Reusable Payment Codes

- BIP78- PayJoin

- BIP352 - Silent Payments

(interesting all 3 are privacy focused)

BTCPayServer being the most mature fruition of the vision behind Pay-to-IP.

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Alex Waltz 2y ago

12/12

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