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Title: What would it take to 'bump' bitcoins to each other? Post by: paulie_w on March 21, 2011, 08:01:33 PM technically speaking, what would be all of the steps involved in making a "bump two phones together to initiate a money transfer" platform work with bitcoin?
Title: Re: What would it take to 'bump' bitcoins to each other? Post by: theymos on March 21, 2011, 09:26:39 PM The recipient would give its public key to the sender, and the sender would create a transaction to that public key and send it to the recipient. Then both broadcast it on the network.
It would be like IP transactions (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/IP_Transactions). Title: Re: What would it take to 'bump' bitcoins to each other? Post by: bitcoinex on March 22, 2011, 01:59:08 AM technically speaking, what would be all of the steps involved in making a "bump two phones together to initiate a money transfer" platform work with bitcoin? GPRS internet + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication Title: Re: What would it take to 'bump' bitcoins to each other? Post by: ffe on March 22, 2011, 03:53:10 PM The recipient would give its public key to the sender, and the sender would create a transaction to that public key and send it to the recipient. Then both broadcast it on the network. It would be like IP transactions (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/IP_Transactions). You could just bump them together. http://bu.mp/. The phones themselves would then exchange public keys and the sender would create the bitcoin transaction. Title: Re: What would it take to 'bump' bitcoins to each other? Post by: TiagoTiago on March 22, 2011, 05:05:10 PM I once saw this thing about this technology that used the human body as a conduit, so you could keep your phone or other pocktable computing device in your pocket and simply shake hands to seal the deal.
Title: Re: What would it take to 'bump' bitcoins to each other? Post by: Anonymous on March 23, 2011, 09:23:05 AM I once saw this thing about this technology that used the human body as a conduit, so you could keep your phone or other pocktable computing device in your pocket and simply shake hands to seal the deal. I see what you did there :) |