gui: Explain what "message" means in the receive tab #17173

issue MarcoFalke opened this issue on October 17, 2019
  1. MarcoFalke commented at 1:43 PM on October 17, 2019: member

    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
  2. MarcoFalke added the label Feature on Oct 17, 2019
  3. MarcoFalke added the label Brainstorming on Oct 17, 2019
  4. MarcoFalke added the label GUI on Oct 17, 2019
  5. dannmat commented at 8:49 PM on November 11, 2019: none

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

  6. MarcoFalke commented at 8:51 PM on November 11, 2019: member

    Removing sounds fine with me

  7. Danny-Scott commented at 9:22 PM on November 11, 2019: contributor

    ACK - seems useless to me

  8. laanwj referenced this in commit 26744ae189 on Nov 20, 2019
  9. MarcoFalke closed this on Nov 20, 2019

  10. sidhujag referenced this in commit bc5edceb24 on Nov 20, 2019
  11. sidhujag referenced this in commit e4d89715b5 on Nov 10, 2020
  12. MarcoFalke locked this on Dec 16, 2021

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