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Would be cool to see bitcoin services use your bitcoin identity instead of email

• deleted 14y ago
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• frisco 14y ago
  How would that work? Bitcoin doesn't really provide an identity.
  • hxc 14y ago
    Yup. Bitcoin is meant to be anonymous.
    • frisco 14y ago
      This is a common misconception. Bitcoin isn't anonymous, but there isn't really a way to use your addresses as an "identity" easily, either. Sure you could use a Bitcoin address as the keypair it is to authenticate yourself, but that seems like an odd way to sign up for a service.
    • celticninja 14y ago
      no it is not, its decentralized nature does lend itself to anonymity however.
  • alexbosworth 14y ago
    I've seen it work on a few sites, like AnonymousAds, but yeah it's not a 1:1 mapping
  • bnr 14y ago
    You could create a login-token signed with your bitcoin private key. Wallet software would have to implement that, though.