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So...what can I buy with BitCoins? Also, from the link, "Donations are accepted at 1Nqr3MqVyUp6k3o3QPePAdn4Yg4tzgB9kw." Somehow I think that's going to present
by thinkcomp 16y ago
So...what can I buy with BitCoins?
Also, from the link, "Donations are accepted at 1Nqr3MqVyUp6k3o3QPePAdn4Yg4tzgB9kw." Somehow I think that's going to present an obstacle for most people.
Is this something that is really targeted at the general public, or at programmers who are bored of dollars?
- jackolas 16y agoI'd assume one could use a DNS like resolver for named addresses considering bitcoin allows IP addresses...
- soult 16y agoYou could use DNS to map from a domain to a bitcoin address. In the Bitcoin forums people are actually working on a way to map email addresses to a bitcoin address. However, using IP addresses for Bitcoin transfers is insecure because you are vulnerable to MITM attacks (you wouldn't do online banking over a non-SSL connection, would you?) and because the IP addresses of the sender and the receiver will be known by each other.
- socksy 16y agoAnonymity allows for online markets that were previously a lot harder to achieve: https://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.tor2web.org/ https://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.tor2web.org/
- CoffeeDregs 16y agoohmiword... That is very interesting...
- derefr 16y agoThey could make that one step less confusing by just attaching a protocol scheme (coin://1Nqr...), so that users could click on a labelled link instead. They could make it two steps simpler by making it work like OpenID, where a URL can defer its bit coin "alternate" using a <link> tag—so you could just enter someone's web address in your bit coin client, and be able to push coins to them that way.
- rfugger 16y agoA list of merchants that accept bitcoin: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade