Bitcoin: gui: Explain what "message" means in the receive tab

Created on 17 Oct 2019  ·  3Comments  ·  Source: bitcoin/bitcoin

When creating a receiving address, there is the option to provide a "message". This "message" is shown in the table of all receiving addresses in the same tab.

The tooltip says that this message is attached to the "payment request" (presumably BIP 70). It is unclear to me if it ever was possible to receive payment requests with Bitcoin Core. And now that the payment request functionality is disabled by default and about to get removed, it could makes sense to cleanup this interface:

  • The term "message" should go away, because there is nothing we send out to the Bitcoin network
  • It should explain how this is different from a label, which is settable in the same tab
  • It should explain how this is different from a comment, which exists in the RPC interface, but is not exposed in this tab
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ACK - seems useless to me

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I'd say remove this, it's confusing and unnecessary. I'll remove this and it's references if that is the consensus?

Removing sounds fine with me

ACK - seems useless to me

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