From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Wendell <w@grabhive•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 23:44:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1k9xsOESVL6yD+MvaO53Z9Fj_MifnquKi+2fcfk0uP4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9179D240-EE7E-41A4-AA59-7C96246D8CFB@grabhive.com>
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This is the sort of thing the payment protocol is for. The recipient would
vend a PaymentRequest containing identity details. The sender would submit
a Payment containing his/hers. The wallet then understands what to do.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Wendell <w@grabhive•com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're thinking about ways of automatically exchanging contact details
> between wallets, in order to encourage the proliferation of identifiable
> names and photos rather than long and hard-to-verify addresses.
>
> The simplest version goes like this:
>
> 2 BTC Bitcoin is sent to someone, and a data lookup hash is inserted into
> the transaction. When it arrives on the other end, it is indeed looked up,
> and instead of being presented with a dialogue that says "you received 2
> BTC from 13Y94z43Nbbb6wevRyk82CeDoYQ5S28zmA", it's "You received 2 BTC from
> Frank Jones" including a nice photo.
>
> Now. We can simply delete this data in reference to the transaction ID
> after it happens (or delete it after a time), but is there any more
> decentralized way to do it? I would prefer us to run no dedicated servers
> that would ever put us in a position of being coerced into giving data, or
> otherwise altering our system to store it.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> -wendell
>
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>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-07 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 15:07 Wendell
2013-09-06 22:47 ` Eric Lombrozo
2013-09-16 14:05 ` Wendell
2013-09-17 9:30 ` Wendell
2013-09-17 10:03 ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-17 12:05 ` Wendell
2013-09-17 12:36 ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-07 21:44 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2013-09-09 7:26 ` Wendell
2013-09-09 11:43 ` Mike Hearn
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