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Is there any way for bitcoin to have an alias system?

Is there any way for bitcoin to have an alias system?

use it on input alias website and use it your site or your link to set to your address..
thats easy but need confirm .

There is one system in place for bitcoin

https://onename.io/

it uses Namecoins IIRC

Very cool, although centralized, it will do for now. I would prefer to be able to send bitcoin to an alias but i guess nxt and others will be better for that.

I have tested out RushWallet, it has AMAZING integration with onename. Type someones onename alias in the send too address and it populates with the corrospoding btc address.

Cheers.

Is there any way for bitcoin to have an alias system?

Checkout onename.io the Bitcoin name registration system. We've integrated it into www.rushwallet.com (http://www.rushwallet.com)

Is there any way for bitcoin to have an alias system?

Not a good idea at this time. Addresses should not be re-used.

I've started thinking it through, and a self-published alias might be the easiest addition. It would seem best to lift Namecoin's style of address registration with fee. There would certainly be a landrush period, and you would want to discourage squatting, so a significant but diminishing cost would better ensure interested parties might still find their desired alias available (see post #10 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56839.msg679373#msg679373) above; I paid .55 BTC in fees just for some fun...).

Implementation: You go into your address book, there is an option called "register label on network". You press this, it asks you to create an alias that other clients can see to send money to you. If you are not the first, you get an error that the alias is already taken. The alias is permanently included in the blockchain along with some bitcoins you donate as the fee, and then the address book will list all aliases registered to your address. Other Bitcoin clients would have a searchable database of all these aliases to find you as a recipient.

However, I don't think anything like this should be included in Bitcoin. Although not any more dangerous than "firstbits", it would make it too easy to spoof people into sending money to an "amazon.com" that goes to a malicious squatter instead. It also hinders anonymity and the sender identification that comes with one-time-use addresses.

First, Bitcoin will likely never be extended in such a way, it falls in the category of storing non-transaction data in the blockchain, which is against the grain of every position taken by developers and contributors.

The obvious feature of aliases is to discover someone's address, by looking up other information such as a name. However looking up a name has fundamental problems. Any conceivable system apart from a centrally micro-managed repository would allow bad actors to create false aliases such as "Deep Celeron" "The REAL deepceleron", "deepce1eron", or anything else that might foil the system by making my real account unclear to senders. Someone might go create an alias with my email address before I do it myself.

Address message signing is not a solution to this problem. You don't have my Bitcoin address yet, so it doesn't matter that an alias was signed by the address someone wants to fool you into using.

Namecoin allows name storage in it's blockchain. There are many id/useralias entries now where the "info" field is someone's Bitcoin address.

Again, the only reason why this has value is that I got it first. I could register id/Syke, and claim that that is the proof that I am Syke, and sign further messages with the address showing proof that "Syke" owns that address and name.

Aliases would be useful in theory, but would be troubling in any implementation, and would only create another way for people to have Bitcoins stolen.