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I'm going to be adding a page to my miconations website that will allow micronation enthusiasts to apply for digital citizenship. This form would require their BTC wallet address. I was wondering if there was any reason a person my not be willing to enter their address into the site. I mean you can only pay someone with their wallet address correct?

Correct, you need a wallet address to send someone a payment.  Why do you require their BTC wallet address, is the goal not that they pay you?
If a person does not want to enter their address you could arrange a meeting with paper wallet payment.

Their BTC wallet Address would be more for convince purposes, our citizens get a discount on certain services and goods (Navismaris Photo ID card, Visas, Passports ect.) This way when they paid we could quickly see it was a citizens account and verify the payment amount was correct.

No, it doesn't seem sketchy.

You cannot exactly hack someone with just their address, it'd take decades to centuries.


A paper wallet would seem sketchier to me than just giving my address. Plus , that takes way more time and effort than just entering it. I could see where someone would be mad, and this would possibly be if you gave their addresses for Sat advertising.

Other than that, it doesn't seem sketchy.

Most people literally have their address in open display.

nothing sketchy here.

A terminology lesson is needed here. There is no such thing as a "wallet address". An "address" holds bitcoins. A "wallet" holds addresses.

A wallet can hold more than 1 address. For example, a Bitcoin Core wallet holds at least 100 addresses.

Furthermore, a person can obviously have more than one address. There is no reason why a person can't have a million addresses. There is no reason why a person can't generate an address to be used only for your site. So, the answer to your question is that there is no problem with asking someone to register a bitcoin address on your site.

Finally, your plan will not work very well. With all but a few wallets, it is difficult to send money from a specific address.

No reason for them, not to be willing to provide their "Public Bitcoin Address" {When working in fiat, you would be asking for the persons bank account number}

The difference between fiat and bitcoin is, you can have any amount of public Bitcoin addresses.

If you only asking this information, to be able to pay someone, it should not matter to them. The correct question would be, would people want to link their bitcoin address to some sort of service, that might reveal their digital identity.

This will not be a problem, if their other public addresses are not linked to this address. {So they should not send or receive bitcoins to the public address they used for your service, if they want to have their other public addresses anonymous}

Hope you get, what I am saying.

Well you can check the bitcoin transcations in and out of his bitcoin address as well. But I don't think it is a problem at all.


Using that address to identify the user isn't a good idea, as bitcoin address shouldn't be re-used to have better privacy and security.