Very recently and without much notice or discussion with developers, one of the largest Bitcoin payment processor for merchants, Bitpay, decided to drop support entirely for the bitcoin standard scheme for displaying a payment request to an end-user known as BIP21. In replacement of BIP21 - which is universally supported and implemented by all Bitcoin wallet and service providers since 2012 - Bitpay will present a payment request to users that conforms to a controversial proposal that is not widely supported (BIP 70). What is BIP21? BIP21 is an open standard deployed and enabled by all bitcoin wallets and services...
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