Michiel de Jong michielbdejong

I thought the following Dutch services for user-to-user payment requests were all quite interesting developments, once you have thought about how we design Interledger Payment Requests and the W3C Payment Request API:

There's a new service for sending payment requests in the Netherlands: https://tikkie.me/ It's super simple, you get a link to a payment URL that uses the Dutch iDEAL system, to which all Dutch banks are connected. iDEAL has existed for years and people use it a lot to pay things online; usually the options would be creditcard, paypal, iDEAL. iDEAL is just a redirector service: Pick your bank, and it redirects you to your own online banking. The tikkie link can be pasted in WhatsApp or other chat/email channels. It's really taken off and I heard people mention it quite a lot, quite suddenly.

Faucets:

btc https://testnet.manu.backend.hamburg/faucet
xrp https://ripple.com/build/ripple-test-net/
eth https://www.rinkeby.io/
ltc http://ltc.makejar.com/
zcash https://faucet.testnet.z.cash/

baseline: pay to any testnet

pay a deposit from sender to connector, which will only be used to cover costs of rolled back payments

PluginBackend

The backend parameter is an object of the abstract type PluginBackend:

interface PluginBackend {
  getTransferLog(options): TransferLog
}

interface TransferLogOptions {

	const crypto = require('crypto')
	const Packet = require('ilp-packet')
	const uuid = require('uuid/v4')
	const Plugin = require('ilp-plugin-bells')

	const sender = new Plugin({ account: 'https://red.ilpdemo.org/ledger/accounts/alice', password: 'alice' })
	const receiver = new Plugin({ account: 'https://blue.ilpdemo.org/ledger/accounts/bob', password: 'bobbob' })

	Promise.all([sender.connect(), receiver.connect()]).then(() => {
	const secret = crypto.randomBytes(32)