rich1.0npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kwhttps://nostr.ae/npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kwnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2015-01-19 📝 Original message:On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote: > OK, I guess we can boil this down more simply. BIP 70 uses protocol >> buffers because I designed it and implemented the original prototype (with >> lots of input from Gavin and an earlier proposal by sipa). I used protocol >> buffers because, beyond all their nice properties, I used to work at Google >> and so was very familiar with them. >> > What Mike said. Runner-up for encoding was JSON. XML+ASN.1 was Right Out, because lots of us hate XML and ASN.1 with a burning passion. Complexity is the Enemy of Security, and both XML and ASN.1 are too complex. -- -- Gavin Andresen Chief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation https://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150119/e1a3fb5a/attachment.html>