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What do you think will they ever make BTC connected with our mobile numbers (so we could pay with it)?  8)

Considering there is an ethereum name service which maps .eth domains to wallets, connecting btc with a mobile number is not a far stretch.

No. Hell no. A BTC address affiliated with a mobile number is a huge problem in terms of anonymity. One of the pros of bitcoin is being somewhat anonymous to some extent, due to wallet addresses not being affiliated with any personal data or information that the wallet owner has. Connecting wallets/addresses to a mobile number will render this feature useless. You can use those services if you want. But don't come crying here saying that you lost your bitcoins because the service provider got hacked.

you can send bitcoin right from your mobile wallet, scan qr code or paste an bitcoin address and send. why do you want it to be connected to a mobile number?

I think it is connected to a wallet that I know which is the coins.ph but it is not connected there that you can use it to pay some of your friends bitcoin but rather a security. I think it is pretty lame to make that in the future.

I don't know about near future, but in India we have a bitcoin exchange, Zebpay (Android only) and in this app my mobile number is my unique ID (registration through mobile number only), all my bitcoin transactions and withdrawals are linked to my mobile number and I can send bitcoin to any Zebpay user by entering their mobile number, works like a bitcoin whatsapp wallet ;D

There is M-Pesa, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

A mobile phone based payment system. Users can send and receive funds through SMS, no internet connectivity required. I don't think a mobile based, offline, SMS based transactions system would be feasible for bitcoins.

This is a very feasible idea, and you'd be surprised - there are potentially dozens of projects just like this that are in the works.

It wouldn't be such a far off idea to imagine a digital asset version of phone line credit being developed.

There are already several versions of this in various countries in Africa and Asia, where phone credit is being used as a form of currency.

Using blockchain technology in this area will obviously boost efficiency, and provide that all important verification layer that is so essential when dealing with any kind of transaction.

So really, it isn't difficult at all to imagine Bitcoin or any other digital asset being linked with a mobile phone number as you suggested.

This is very possible... and there are potentially dozens of small teams based around the globe, who are perhaps working on something similar to this

We do not need that option. There is no added functionality if you connect bitcoin to a mobile number but risk security of the owner. If you can connect bitcoin to a mobile number, you can easily connect it to a face and criminals can easily attack owners of addresses with large amount of bitcoin.

That should not take place anymore, because here too people use additional mobile number and have wallets. It's like a to track every transaction happening through the particular mobile number. It looks similar to the norms that some service sectors follow to know their customers identity.

This idea is absurd as bitcoin will never be bitcoin anymore. We knew bitcoin became popular because of being anonymous and why they had to connect it with mobile number? People can easily track you and will know you from the telecoms company if someone wants to know who's this person that made millions or thousands of dollars sending to other people.

Yeah i agree with your opinion and i think if that happen bitcoin is more easy to hack by some hackers today even bitcoin secure but still a lot of people there bitcoins got stolen by hackers

Was BTC unhackable  when first aired on internet? I think not.

Bitcoin is not that easily hacked though there are ways to hack a bitcoin wallet provider especially the one's in the exchanges or without the private keys. I think even if we connect our bitcoin wallet into a phone number, there will be no dramatic change at all.

It is right that due to anonymous feature bitcoin has become popular across the world very soon and people want to keep secrecy especially regarding their income. Bitcoin has not yet been legalized fully in the world so in near future it is not possible for bitcoin to be connected with mobile number it may be only in one case when bitcoin recognized legally across the world like dollar.

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of anonymity?

If a telco provider teamed up with services such as Bitpay, it could be a possibility to just send coins through SMS and that would be economical too knowing that internet access wouldn't be needed. However, the risk is that you will be entrusting your coins to third party services.

Only the government can implement this thing but I'm sure of that almost the bitcoin economy will be subject unto this thing. There's no reason to connect bitcoin / bitcoin wallet into a mobile number, the feature of bitcoin for being anonymous will be void and we will look for some other coins if this will happen.

I thought that  anonymity is among first places with all btc or crypto currencies.

That is not what i was wondering about, my question was can you go out on dinner and pay with it like credit card (plus i didnt say that i want that i was wondering is it possible) .

Maybe some think that this could be very convenient but actually that would scare away many users from Bitcoin. Even now anomimity is on very low level, much lower than it was at the begining of Bitcoin, and connection wiith your mobile phone number would finish it. Many, including me, wouldn't like that.

not yet mate that's still a way far since adoptions are not fully implemented and like what others said it will break the purpose of bitcoin being anonymous if you will provide and connect your mobile number your wallet will now be traceable and for sure if you have a lots of bitcoin your identity will be revealed.

This important feature of bitcoin which is anonymity will be under threat if this should happen but that does not mean it won't happen considering that there are several companies coming into bitcoin and not everyone wants to be anonymous and at the same time people are ready to give up anonymity for convenience which that might bring about. Using the banking system for example, with my phone number, I can virtually do anything without having to open an app or connected to the internet.

of course not. Mobile numbers are allready on their way out. You can make calls to people without anyones phone number today.

This goes against everything Satoshi worked for. Privacy, anonymity, why would people sacrifice those for no real benefits? 

Well i didnt think about connecting whole wallet on sim number more of an app that handles BTC (example you go out and transfer from youre pc crypto coin and go out with just one) which is safer from theft. And as for identity well how can they know identity if you dont have any social networks on youre mobile ? :)

Well, it’s likely to be possible, since there are some bitcoin platforms that lets users send bitcoin using their email addresses, I believe inventing mobile number as one of the means of transaction won’t be any difficult task to take. Still, it may lead to compromise the one of basic concepts of bitcoins, being anonymous.

As far as I know, nowadays, all Bitcoin users can easily send, receive and trade Bitcoins on their phones with the internet. We only need to copy and paste the wallet address or scan qr code and then execute the transaction, it is simple. If BTC is connected to a mobile phone number, I think it is also simple and convenient for Bitcoin trading. However, a big problem is security. If you connect Bitcoin to a cell phone number, your level of security and anonymity is likely to be gone, this is in contrast to the nature of Bitcoin.

To me, the use of one's Mobile number should not be an issue, if it is relevant as part of medium  needed, it will definitely be requested for. I think the needed is what is requested now.

I HOPE NOT!!

having bitcoin connected on mobile numbers is a mess!!
mobile is one of dangerous place to have our money.. we cant see them but our carrier can..
and please let us be all anonymous!! THANKS

I don't find mobile numbers safe enough to be connected to any bank account or payment wallet. Today, it takes seconds for people to get IDs and there have been so many scams associated with bitcoins which would make it highly insecure to pay with our mobile number and not have any additional security. Credit/debit cards too are insecure but still to get another credit/debit card is tough unless our card is stolen. Wallets like ledger are safer to use for btc.

I couldn't be sure if we really need this feature. For this, bitcoin devs have to improve new updates and this updates would be serious ones. So, I don't expect this to happen in near future.

There are wallets which provide something similar. You can connect your mobile number with wallet and send btc instantly to your contacts using internal wallet transfer. However, this feature is in-built and not applicable to phone numbers which are not registered with that wallet.
I don't think there will be any add-on to BTC in future which will allow you to transfer funds from mobile-to-mobile universally without actually using single service.

Btc may be connected to respective owner's mobile numbers but this way the btc will losse some portion of anonymity.
Traders who are happy with its anonymity, shall not be happy if this case happens

That would be a pretty dumb idea if you ask me. Because why would you put your personal info in something that benefits on being anonymous at a limited extent? Why even use btc in the first place?? Just for profit? I don't think profit will be forever in btc. It will someday become what it is made to be. A great crypto currency. By making your mobile number connected to bitcoins you open up so much about you. Because we all know mobile numbers are used widely for internet accounts., i.e., facebook, google, etc...
 
I just don't see a lot potential. But maybe. If it is just an opion and not a requirement for all that has btc. Then it would be nice cause with cellular network, offline transactions with sms are great. Its like having load on your prepaid account on sim cards. That you can pass around to anyone you want to.

They maybe connect our BTC address to our mobile number so we can use the mobile number to transfer BTC. I think without BTC address we can not send or receive any BTC with a just mobile number. If this facility is there means I am sure your BTC is connected to your number. Until today I did not find a site like this, can you please share that site names?

It might be applicable only for those country who doesn't register there mobile numbers, to hide there profile. It might use by government chasing us.

It doesn't actually work like connecting btc addresses with mobile number. Rather such services are provided by web wallets in their mobile apps. BTC.COM mobile app is one such wallet.
As one doesn't get private keys of owned Bitcoins on such wallets, web wallets have full control over our btc. So they can easily debit/credit different accounts based on mobile-2-mobile request made.
Here are the screenshots-
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You don't find them to be safe, but in a way they are a part of your bank profile. All banks I've dealt with required the users to submit their numbers. My main bank is sending me messages with pin codes and stuff. If they really wanted to track me they could do it with ease.
Your phone might already be connected to your bitcoin addresses through an exchange, if you've given it to them. Privacy no longer exists.

Well you must say its not bad idea if you read some of my previous post about its security, and it may happen in future why not.

Someone knows what im talking about. I cant write whole thoughts on post but he knows what im talking about. :D

i would love to, but if we look at other POV. i dont really think this would be good.
its like linking their own profile at some mobile number right? police/goverment can locate the user of BTC easily this way. so i prefer no if possible

To make any transaction from your mobile phone we can now. To bind the mobile phone number to bitcoin wallet it means to fall under the control of the security services. In addition, the mobile phone number may change. You will be constantly changing purses?

for sure yes i am very sure

The possibility of this happening is very much possible and I have not even read on the thread before reading somewhere else on how a company is planning to invest in satellites in other to ensure that bitcoin transactions are carried out without internet connection and this is very much not impossible which can equally make the use of mobile phones possible and if the penetration is going to be high, then advancement in technology needs to start looking into that direction.

That would be making a decentralized currency centralized. The more that you connect Bitcoin with any or every other organization, or data structure your connecting it to somebody's personal identity which goes completely against the purpose of the coin, and completely against the purpose of cryptocurrency.

I think that this is a fair warning to all not to be so excited with a simple idea that can have repercussion to the whole Bitcoin network. However, there are now wallet service providers which are somehow connected with the smartphone numbers and I think it is okay unless the phone can be stolen and there are no security measures being implemented. In other words, convenience is not always the main thing to consider but right now it is always security.

If as your said, do the banks or government never accept Bitcoin? Because if they accept it, Bitcoin will centralized in one place in this country. I think in future the community cryptocurrency should find the way fix this issue.

I really think that this really be a very great security feature for the BTC network, its surely going to prevent the theft of bitcoins from hackers. When a verification code is sent to the phone number to authenticate every login its sure t prevent theft.

I think bitcoin should not be connected with mobile numbers as it would remove the anonymity which is one of the major reason what Bitcoin is now.I think connecting Bitcoin to mobile number would some power over our Bitcoin which would make Bitcoin bit centralize.As Bitcoin connects to more services it's one of the pros of being decentralised crypto currency will be gone.Bitcoin is good as it is now except long confirmation time.

Well if goverment wanted to locate someone with this advancement of technology they would need few minutes to do it so you dont have to worry about it . :)

We don't need that to happen at all. We can already pay with our mobile anywhere where bitcoin is accepted, without it being connected to our mobile number, with the wallets. I don't think i would want my bitcoins to be associated with my mobile number as i won't feel anonymous at all in that case, and i would not feel safe at all paying for anything with them if they are going out from my mobile number.

I think it will not be very useful and I don't know if anything like this is even possible but as programming is already surprising me every time it makes an impossible stuff possible. anyway, I think we should change mobile numbers into something better because they need really some improvement they are still like the old age systems.and also we should work on making everything inside virtual reality. man, that will be awesome.

This completely depends on the wallet you use. Someone might make a wallet where you pay with phone number, but it's paid to an address behind the scenes. I really hope this won't happen, and I highly doubt this will ever happen either. Privacy and anonymity is a big thing when it comes to cryptocurrencies, and I don't think it'll be ruined by this.

Please explain in more details, I can't understand what do you mean. If we have smartphones it's super easy with apps to pay with bitcoins. If btc will be connected to our mobile numbers, will there anything important happen?
I can't see even if situation will change. We have wallet keys and etc, do you mean only mobile number based wallet? Then it won't be safe because imagine goverment can to listen us while we call, see records of our sms and etc.

For me i am already connected to my mobile if i need to login or send btc anywhere i will need my mobile. For all the sites where i have invested , trade or even store bitcoin their is a 2 factor verification and in order for me to login no matter what i will need my phone. I'm sure many others also have this verification you can say that now itself we are using our mobile to make payments.

First of all op you should have clearly explained as to how you think bitcoin can be connected to a mobile number, in what ways do you think it can be implemented and can benefit us all. As per the entire idea of bitcoin it's not necessary nor even desirable to connect or link any identity proof to bitcoin. There can be and as there are already bitcoin mobile wallet but it's in no way necessary or even permissible to allow our mobile numbers to be connected to bitcoin. So I would say there will hardly be anyone who would like their mobile number to be connected to their bitcoins.

I don't think it will happen and I will not be using such service.

I don't see any necessity to connect Btc to a mobile number. This would be a very serious breach of security and it would contradict the very idea of anonymous cryptocurrency

I don't think that bitcoin will become connected with mobile number because bitcoin promotes security and that mobile number has a very low security and a lot of smart people can bypass and do something bad with your mobile number so connecting bitcoin with mobile number is such a risky and dangerous thing so i think the developers of bitcoin will not let that happen.

yeah really agree with you thoughts brother. the way technology is advancing and the way everything is going better and better in the field of technology time by time. i think there are severe chances that it would be possible in the future.
i think the thing needed is legalization of bitcoin through super powers of the world like 'america' , 'china' and its adoption by different developing countries like india , indonasia , pakistan which has a huge number of population based of teenager or youth so, i think the more world accept it the more chances are that it will advance its technology to relief people.

Oh nice!
Another great idea that will improve bitcoin by turning it more and more into fiat.

Not only have we replaced the banks with both miners and online wallets now let's ruing the p2p payment feature also.
Because you are too lazy to make a payment with your normal wallet , you choose the worse way to do it.

Give the mobile company access to your funds.
Forfeit all the bitcoin security and rely on the fact that maybe your phone will not be stolen.
And don't forget, this service will also have some costs, so more tx fees.

Satoshi is rolling in his grave at 12000RPM.



Yeah, let's make satellites that will rely bitcoin transactions without internet instead of using those satellites for internet communications like is being done right now!!!
It's like building a dam to make way for a mine, extract the iron, make buckets and then give the buckets to the people in the village to carry the water from the lake that is now too far away.

DId you ever thought that you just buried person who is maybe alive :O And this idea will make us fat belive me. :P

It is not absurd lets call it upgrade, like we did with symbian phones (and yes they made life easier but i dont approve them talking about smartphones but they are part of our everyday lifes). And for people tracking well we went thru that theme or post why do you think smartphones are made no need to go in details.

I am sure in the future bitcoin can be integrated with various services that exist in the world today. Included with the integrating mobile number, in the sense that one day later the mobile number can have the identification of the registered wallet. This is everyone's hope for more centralized and secure services.

Well in my personal opinion, i think that they won't just connect to our mobile numbers, but i think that they will create an Application that will allow us to pay for our electricity for example, also fuel, gov. taxes and so on. But before developers will be able to do that, they first have to get access and get partnered with companies to get allowed to use bitcoins as a wallet, instead of national Currency (USD,GEL,EUR...)

"Connection" could only and should only be an option, for example for some of the addresses in a wallet.

I don't know about near future BTC would.But already connected with mobile number in my coinbase wallet.To get all the transactions I need to get verification code from mobile.It's a security.Did you do this in your wallet?

I don't think that it will be necessary to connect a wallet for your bitcoin with a phone number.
From a technical point of view I think that is even impossible.
What I can imagine, and what is already in place at many exchanges, is that you have to ID yourself when you want to exchange bitcoin into fiat.
And that includes a phone number.
 

Well maybe your phone numbers maybe added to the walkers public Key or something like that else I likewise don't see the practicability of attaching phone numbers to our bitcoins.

I hope not. I'm changing my phone number every few weeks at the moment. I have countless enemies who must be avoided.

Considering all the tales we hear about how easy it is to game mobile phone companies to reroute sims, it's not something I'm going to be entrusting any money to.

Like it or not, THAT Satoshi is dead.
No matter how he tries to come back into the spotlight , he will never be the same Satoshi. There will always be a shadow of doubt about him and he has no role right now.
Nobody wants a crypto Draghi.

And I really don't want to get fat. I like my weight right now, slim and healthy.
A lot of bitcoiners are staring to abandon all the reasons why BTC was born just to get fat. Is that important for you to get rich and your wealth to be at the disposal of a mobile operator?



Honestly, I feel like I just got struck with a hammer ...Everyone's hope for what???????

CENTRALIZATION?

Are you out of your fword mind?
Are you people really that bent on destroying BTC with your greed?



For the traditional wallet  of course it is impossible.
But it seems like people are happy with their precious BTC being held by wanna be banks.

Correct, adding phone numbers to it will leave a lot of us vulnerable and makes us potential victims of the bad guys. I don't want to believe the OP didn't consider the implications of this action should it be implemented somehow.

Associating bitcoin wallet with your mobile is a big no no no! It's not safe cause some hackers can hack it. Or for example you lost your phone with your sim in it, then someone found your phone, it is possible that all your btcs can be stolen from you by the person who found your mobile device, dude. Dont dream for it to happen.

Bitcoin is great for connecting to mobile devices
It will be convenient because everyone has a smartphone in their hands
It will help us pay goods by bitcoin
However, another problem is that it's not safe, imagine when you lose your phone, all of your bitcoin will lose.

It is going to be a welcome development if connecting BTC with mobile phone is going to work out, personally my blockchain wallet is linked with my mobile phone whenever I received bitcoin in my block chain wallet an SMS alert will be received by me, It is noted that BTC is a technology based cryptocurrency which is possible to be linked to a mobile phone.

Why will you need a mobile number for if you can send right away your Bitcoin Wallet Address? I think what you are asking os totally unnecessary because connecting it to a mobile number will be a useless thing to do necause it won't have any function. Not unless it is a debit card in whoch you won't need an internet access for. Also assuming it for the future, I think that us being a technical world would have easier access with Bitcoin directly.

i dont think bitcoin will be added with any number because its main motto is to keep people anonymous . if number is added it will never be like that . any many peoples faces will come to light

While there are already web wallets linked to your mobile number, if Bitcoin itself gets linked to a mobile number then you'd pretty much have Paypal. Bitcoin is advertised to be pseudonymous and unreversible. If you link a number your identity would be then linked to the address killing pseudonymity and it would also be possible for anyone with access to your phone number (remember the phone company and the government probably can, along with anybody who steals your phone) could spend your BTC without a private key.

Long story short: It wouldn't go well. If you really want this then just use a web wallet that already supports it.

I think it is already connected. You can topup your mobile number with bitcoin using top-up services like bitrefill and xapo like online wallets ask for sms verfication before logging into your bitcoin wallet. Many other online wallets are using your mobile number as your bitcoin account to receive bitcoin.

What LOL? But you don't have to have your mobile number connected to your wallet to spend it via mobile? We've had mobile wallets for more than a few years now. What you said makes zero sense.

Same as if you lose your computer, or your hardware wallet, or your paper wallet, or any other wallet. That's what the private keys are for. How the heck did you reach Full Member without knowing that. ???

In my country, this have been implimented but in an indirect manner. They use mobile numbers to send the access code if ever you want to access your wallet through the internet. In this way, you are sure that you are the only one who can access your wallet.

I am sure that one day all private information is going to be saved uner one private number. Everything: the ID, wallet, phone, insurance end ect. Maybe in 50 years or early this future will became our present.

I am sure of that.Yes it is,because today bitcoins are send to person to person and having transactions even both persons were far from each other.And in the status of bitcoin today its very possible to happen that cryptocrrency is now well being known in the whole world.To be honest bitcoin is now connected in many companies how much for when it come to technology.

One of the basic features of btc is anonymity. So when you create this topic to ask like that I think you should remember this before. If btc is associated with a phone number, then anonymity will no longer exist, and it may be easier for the user to be stolen. Although this is also a creative idea but I think it is inappropriate and not feasible.

i can agree to that mate its the well known feature of bitcoin that's why supports and investors who dont want being known by others are playing
with this investment so if they will be needed to gave their personal information it wont followed this anonymous transactions and i dont think that
if this happen more people will still buy it with already a danger with their money.

If they ever do that they would make an deactivation like on a credit card, and as for hackers they will always exist as long there is technology. And as credit card cant be accessed without pin those smartphones could not be accessed without pin or fingerprint depends on what security it has.

That looks a lot like todays facebook youre picture number wallet since you can sync credit card well there is no insurance yet. :D

It certainly looks like we're going to see it within our lifetime :)

In the Republic of the Philippines, the most convinient way to buy bitcoins with peso is thru coins.ph... this provider requires the users to integrate their mobile numbers with their wallets to avoid laundering. In fact, you can purchase bitcoins from 711 via your mobile number.

I don't think so, one of the best powerful features of Bitcoin is its anonymousity, and that it is decentralized currency, connection BTC with mobilr numbers affect negatively this features and don't encourage more people to start using or dealing with Bitcoin.

Can BTC truly be considered decentralized even though more than 70% of the mining is coming from one location? Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/

If any of these services will come, then people would use it for convenience. But it's must be decentralized. It must be seperate service, not Bitcoin plugin for anonymity.

That time is not much far. Already a lot of things are connected with mobile numbers and can be controlled with mobile numbers. And it will not be much difficult thing and programmers will be able to make this happen. And let me tell you that transferring money using mobile numbers is already somehow practical. In my country there are companies that have given this feature to its users that they can send money from one place to another using mobile numbers.

NSA keeps record of everything you have done in past two years by using your number. They have record of all of us in other words. Now you want them to learn about our earnings and trace over bitcoins also. Also, what is the reason behind connecting it with mobile numbers? I did not get it.

Well i wrote about that on earlier posts if someone wanted to know who you are or where you are that would be done in few minutes so you dont have to worry, internet made world too small. ;)

I don't quite get why that would be beneficial for the network. It would practically take the anonymous aspect of bitcoin away. You already have a 'number' (a long and encrypted one) that serves the purpose pretty well. No need to connect our phone number to our wallets.

I just found out that there is something like this, is it because I lack information or is this a new system?
But I see it is a convenience because the transaction is enough to use sms only.
  Because we also know that by using sms clearly more simple. Hopefully can penetrate my country too, just waiting for the cellular provider willing to cooperate.

That is possible, if seen the development of blockchain technology that is growing rapidly day. Maybe it will be realized in the near future.

in my country we have an app, that uses your mobile number in order to register, that app also gives you an online bitcoin wallet, though it is not really connected with your mobile number, you cannot access the app without it, I think the technology for your wallet and your mobile number is not that impossible, however I still do own a desktop wallet, and I keep my bitcoins safe in that wallet, I only use my online wallet, whenever I am travelling, since the app also converts fiat to bitcoin, once you have replenished the money wallet, you can easily convert it to bitcoin, whenever you see the price goes down, for you to have a bargain. I think when the time comes that bitcoin wallets are connected to your mobile number, the pros will be, you can easily get notified during transactions, it will just be like the banks notification from time to time, whenever a transaction is happening, the cons will be, once they have stolen your phone they might get an access to your bitcoins or in any case if you try to change your number, there is a tendency that you hard earned bitcoins might be lost, since it is connected with the number and a new security will be made, just to make sure your number is safe, however i believe telephone companies will not allow that, they might be in trouble for system hack or an inside job, since we are talking about bitcoins here, you can never tell if people would want to get their hands on your bitcoin, since they can have an access through you mobile. I believe that technology is not far from happening, but I hope many will not rely on their mobile number to be the security for their bitcoins, we do have wallets and only you should have access to it, just don't throw away your key and make sure it is not known by others for your bitcoins not to be stolen.

I knew a wallet that required a mobile number to get in, but it acts as a security only I guess not to transfer coin to one another or paying someone using it. So I guess mobile number can be only used to protect us and not for payment. And for me it is not a good idea.

I disagree with this .. because connecting to your cell phone number does not help aunt .. it also threatens your bitcoin. Hackers can use your cell phone number to access personal information and steal and execute fraudulent schemes. I enjoyed the anonymous feature of this bitcoin making this feature useless.

Good thinking mate really good idea but like we did with pagers.. We just need someone who will work on it or maybe they are already working on it.
And as for VR well that is still far away for many people (something like matrix) or maybe it isnt? :)

Well that would be more of an app which is connected with online wallet something like that  (and yes of course it needs security) lets call it virtual bank, that was my idea anyway..

And how we should change mobile numbers?
They are proven to work for a century, they are easy to use there have been no problem with the system , implementation and cost are as cheap as they can get, why thinkin we need something new?
Adding letters to it would mean insane cost, change of terminals worldwide it's just isn't feasible.
No point trying to invent something better than the wheel.

yes , if can connected with mobile phone then i think Bitcoin market will growing very fast because now most of people using mobile phone to connect internet .

Indeed, now bitcoins are already using cell phone numbers to transact, cell phone numbers are also very helpful in securing the bitcoin you have from the hands of bad guys and even hackers. Because if anyone suspicious you can get news from your cell phone number.

Yes that would be a great advertisement for BTC world, it would became even more popular since everybody uses smartphones. Good one. :)

I think that you are just paranoid, and if that is really true then go higher security or buy better phone , it sad to hear that anyway. And as for mobile companies well they cant do that without goverments permission as far as i know.. And yes stay alive. :) (little hint turn off gps locations on google playstore and location phone in settings and yes almost forgot dont use social apps since they have locations on it if you are using android turn on developer options and turn on fake locations , now you are ghost ) :D

Considering the first update to the Bitcoin core came very recently after such a long time of debate and questions, I can't see Bitcoin core integrating mobile phone numbers to their system. You're asking for a gateway to pay using your mobile phone number which will have its own set of security vulnerabilities.
But you can expect external wallet softwares like blockchain (you can connect your phone number to your wallet already) which might be able to implement this system but even that will take a long time.

I think there would be some benefit from running full nodes. In fact, I think there should be some benefit from doing so right now. A percentage of the fees from transactions or something... they will surely find a way in addition to the fees that are put in place already.

Connecting bitcoin in our mobile number could be possible but I don't its necessary since we can use bitcoin with out mobile phones and I think that is already enough.

Rather than directly using it with mobile Phones, I think hardware wallet are joining to rise in value and become the main method of using bitcoin in physical transactions, Mainly because of security concerns, Considering how fragile mobile phones are in that aspect.

The magnificent thing about BTC Tx's even in physical payments is the ease of use, for example, using Bitpay, You can generate a QR code with the address and amount, so a payment can be as simple as a scan and a confirmation (with any device, mobiles being the easiest).

   I think it will soon enough. Modern day technological innovations use mobile number in connection to the sites and different internet-needed software. It is good to have a mobile connected to this because not everyone has their internet connection most of the time. By this, one can reach their bitcoins on the palm of their hands via phone. One can access it anywhere, anytime.

Its very possible to have this happen but this is not the purpose of using bitcoin, maybe we could see this happen in the future when more people get to know of the blockchain technology and just then can we see this kind of tech roll out to link a person's number to the blockchain.

                   Maybe? We are not sure if somebody would make that kind of service, but to think about it, there is a high chance that it might happen in the future, nobody knows about it. We are really advancing so far and as we can even see in our society, they are slowly modifying and improving what has been for the benefit of humankind, because we knew that there are so many brilliant minds and ideas existing.

I think the Metal wallet is connected to your mobile phone number.
There are other projects as well but they focus more on their own coin and not Btc

Yes. Already have such systems. We think that Africa is a backward region, but in some African countries, the majority of the population already use mobile phones as a wallet. Bitcoin is already lagging behind in this respect and may lose its attractiveness if the situation does not change.

That may be possible and can be used for contact less and digital payment. However, it may carry some significant risks where the bitcoin is still not legal. If a country legalize bitcoin, then it won't be a problem. But if bitcoin is not legal in a particular country and a person whats to use bitcoin with his/her mobile number, he/she may face a regulatory trial.

Otherwise, it is a good idea to make and receive payment. It will be easier and also less time consuming. It will increase the convenience of using bitcoin to a higher standard.

That's good thing to know. That would be interesting to see if something like that emerges or not. But a mobile number implementation means verification of your documents to confirm that number belongs to you. On top of that, you will loose very important feature of bitcoin that is, anonymity of transaction. As you will be verifying yourself you are no longer anonymous. So theoretically it is possible but practical use seems to be dangerous to me.

Not yet happen, but I think it will happen if the technoledge is mature.

I think that this might very well be possible in the future.
A connection between a bitcoin address and a mobile number.
Not for all addresses, of course.
But I can imagine that some companies want payments from veryfied wallets for security reasons.
To them it's important to know who they are making business with.

This does not make any sense at all. Why you asked? Because one of Bitcoin's sole purpose is to make its users anonymous from their transactions yet you think connecting it to a mobile number will support that feature? If a company wants to verify the person there are many ways to do so from checking their credit card bills to visiting their homes. I hope you are getting my point that I am making.

Yeah, it could happen. Even facebook and google accounts verifies through the mobile, so the numbers 100% will be connected trough the interface of the wallet.

it is very possible in the near future if the mobile money agencies and btc decides to create a portfolio to link this up. In my world mobile banking is very huge and if BTC will get in that direction then PRAISES

Why would it not make sense?
What bitcoins purpose is and what people use it for, those are two different things.
I am not saying that every bitcoin address needs to be veryfied.
But I say that there might be a market for verified bitcoin adresses.
The anonymity of bitcoin is for some people a reason to work with bitcoin. But for others the opposite.
If both sides of a transaction want it more secure, why not?

I don't think that's a good idea to connect phone number with btc address because phone numbers always have the private information of the user. Anonymity is one of the plus feature of bitcoin that some people like and by connecting that to phonenumber, you basically lose that advantage.

Hackers have found an exploit in SS7 and cell numbers can also be hacked. It just depends upon their level of knowledge. However, connecting one's transactions of bitcoins with his phone number is a foolish idea and you are giving information to NSA (National Security Agency) directly. If I were you, I would have never done that.

technology is growing very rapidly, and anything becomes easier, of course the developers have set up an application to connect bitcoin with mobile number and I'm sure this will soon be we get.

Why we need mobile number? A wallet and bitcoin address are enough to make bitcoin transaction. why we need mobile number?

As far as I know, we are already there. There are some wallets (web/online wallet) who requires mobile numbers for the construction of their Bitcoin wallet. The users can easily send Bitcoins using a person's mobile number considering that both parties have the same type of wallet and have verified their mobile number to the web wallet. This is very common to some countries that announced their  acceptance of Bitcoin. It is based from the phrase "know your customer" so by connecting the mobile number, they can know who owns the wallet.

Yeah it will happen in future as you said, but it takes a lot of time. And the thing is if technology get matured then they will never ever do that because in this why there is another tax pipe build in our profit which supplies bitcoin to mobile network companies. The other thing is when bitcoin connected to mobile then it will be easy for government to interfere in our assets.

I dont think so. First of all mobile numbers are traced by network providers which may be a source of hacking bitcoins. Second, a person can have multiple mobile numbers nowaways. And it will be hard if each mobile number will be associated to Bitcoin. However, what is good now on the Bitcoin wallet I am using is when I log in, there is an option that you can log in through mobile number and password or email address and password. This is fine, associating the Bitcoin wallet to mobile number. But the Bitcoin itself.

In my opinion no. Bitcoin's nature being decentralized makes it very difficult to be regulated and traced by everyone by considering it, it would be impossible to connect it with mobile numbers. Not to mention, there are already wallets that support different options of withdrawing or converting bitcoins to fiat and connecting it to our mobile number in my opinion is useless or irrelevant. Lastly, this destroys the purpose of bitcoin being untraceable from person-to-person and I speculate that if that happens, prices would probably decrease.

There are just so many possibilities when it comes to integrating bitcoin to make it easier to use and to transact with. We have also read about ideas about bitcoin wallets being implanted on the body, smart cars that use bitcoin as payment for gasoline and repair and maintenance. This bitcoin interconnected with the mobile number is one of those ideas that could affect how we do our transactions in the future, but it is up to individuals if this will be a hit or miss thing. It's good for such ideas to come out so that there's a continuous development going on for bitcoin to reach an even wider base of users.

Bitcoin is already connected to our mobile numbers. When you sign up to exchanges they ask you to verify your phone number... that alone is connecting it.

I think it will be very useful and easy for the people if it is possible to connect bitcoin with mobile numbers, because everyone will be able to check his balance on the spot that how many bitcoin he has left in his account. So he can use his bitcoin according to his savings. And also people will be able to maintain their accounts in most decent and economic way. So I realize it will be a good step to connect bitcoin with cell numbers.

What are you even trying to point about? Why do you need to check your Bitcoin balance via mobile number rather than checking your balance directly in your Bitcoin wallet? That is a pretty stupid and careless function that you are wishing to do. Additionally will the mobile network providers actually allow that kind of function? I think not because it won't be a gain for them.

No, it can never happen. they can't connect it to the mobile number because it can be risky in security and anonymity.  Even though bitcoin is transparent they can't locate where the exact location of the user but if it connects to our mobile numbers they can locate us and also what if our mobile got into other persons hand, they can access our account just in case.

there has a high chance that bitcoin can connected to mobile because in the Philippine online wallet (coin.ph) you can buy a load and also it id connected to your phone number. Some mini store you can load up your wallet using load machine.

It will not happen.
Bitcoin= Anonymity
If you will connect Bitcoin with Mobile Phone Number then there will be no anonymity, So, It will never ever happen in future. We use Bitcoins because we love privacy?

yes of course it will be connected with mobile numbers and everyone will be able to see his account through his mobile. And there is no need to go anywhere. Other thing is that it will be a very promoting step bitcoin because the use of bitcoin will be very easy and comfortable due to its service available on mobile numbers, because transaction, buying and selling will be more and much easier.

I think if the state starts taking bitcoin, they will create the need to at least bind a cell phone number, and ideally make it verified through documents to avoid fraud.