IMHO that's not relevant in the context of Instawallet-like services. If you are to print something on a piece of paper to hand to someone, you might as well print the QR code for the wallet URL. You skip the whole, scan, redeem, wait for confirmations part.
My philosophy about keeping a product simple and usable is to be really selective as to which features you implement. The typical example of this is for example the ability to issue redeemable codes from easywallet. Like, seriously ? Reinventing the wheel when the easywallet URL itself serves the same purpose ? Price formulas ? Seriously ?
Well, I don't understand how you see problem for easywallet developing more features. This is a free world, you are free not to develop anything for instawallet, let us develop easywallet as we wish  The coupons were developed for ATM use and also for reselling bitcoins. I don't see how we are reinventing the wheel, since that kind of stuff is not possible without these features. |
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One feature that would be useful would be the ability to redeem a private key. Currently the choices for this are limited from a mobile. The MtGox live app on Android and iOS will do this but only with the app installed and only to a Mt. Gox account. Blockchain.info will also do this but it requires login, so unless you already have an account it takes a little extra seconds to set up an account. But if Easywallet were to have this feature (to redeem a private key), I could then hand a paper Bitcoin to someone and then that person can use a mobile to go to Easywallet.org, click Redeem, scan the private key QR code and be done. After the transaction confirms they can spend it. That's easy!  Thanks for the idea, that feature is already partly developed, and is definitely coming in the near future. I really like the physical paper wallets, because they are pretty easy concept to understand, and they can be generated offline and be put into a safe, so they also can be very safe. |
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One reason I originally created easywallet.org because the privacy model of the other mobile wallets were really bad - they all used only one address, so anyone who you did business with knew all your transactions. I wanted to use multiple addresses, and have built-in mixer. Currently the multiple address -feature is by default off, since it was very confusing for newbies, you have to turn it on via the preferences.
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Important: new "storage fee" for wallets with balance over 12 BTC. For old wallets, the fee will be effective on 25th november (UTC). For new wallets, the fee will be effective immediately. http://localbitcoins.blogspot.de/2012/10/easywalletorg-new-fee-structure.htmlIf you don't like the fee, you can move your funds out of our our service. You have one month time for that with the old fee structure. There is also a notification for each old wallet which will display for one month. |
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Even if instawallet had just 64-bit wallets or something, still finding a wallet would be pretty hard, since they probably have some kind of DDOS protection which limits the amount of wallets you can try. But they have 128-bit wallets, which means that even if you brute force 100000 wallets/second, you won't find a valid wallet in a year.
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Just start your own cryptocurrency, and stop talking about this. The point has been revisited over 9000 times, and everyone is tired hearing about it.
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OK, now we have a logo  |
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You can actually use open source software commercially, depending on the licence.
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I definitely agree - if you exchange money or any kind of goods/services, and the customer mentions illegal activity, it is wisest to withdraw from the business right away. For your own protection.
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Great work everybody! I will choose the winner on sunday. In addition to these, there are also some out-of-the-forum submissions, which I will add here later...
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It should be pretty easy to market to that market. They already use VPNs and tor so that getting the software should not be a problem, additionally they can use the web wallets. The biggest concern I see is technological illiteracy, it might be very hard for them to understand how bitcoin works.
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There is no need to store money in those centralized services: they just need to provide order book and host some information... No trust required.
Also nothing prevents people for running these order book services, so we'll likely see hundreds of them, so how is this not decentralized?
I'm mostly thinking about how to get this thing kicked out now. I'm pretty sure that there will be hundreds of order book services in something like ten years, but that doesn't help much in the present. To get this off the ground ASAP, some semi-centralized solution could be best way, and iterate then from there on. If nobody else is not going to do it, maybe I am, give me a couple of months |
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I am not sure if this has been mentioned by someone else. To make the decentralized exchange works, we need a standard peer-to-peer protocol to broadcast all the required information: IPO invitations, definition of assets, ask/bid orders, and cancellation of such orders. It's just like how transactions and blocks broadcasting on the bitcoin network. All messages should be signed by the private key of associated bitcoin addresses and/or GPG. For example, IPO and asset definition should be signed by GPG of issuer, and ask/bid orders should be signed by addresses holding enough bitcoin or colored bitcoin for completing the trade.
The peer-to-peer client should be able to check the validity of ask/bid orders. It should also generate raw transaction based on colored coin trading rules, allow transmission of partially singed transaction among the trading parties, and broadcast the completed transaction to the bitcoin network. It should also work as a bot, which will automatically sign transactions based on user instruction.
The efficiency of such system is a big concern. Some user may post a valid ask/bid order but never complete the transaction. Some user may try to double spend their bitcoins or colored bitcoins. Therefore, we need a peer-to-peer rating system to keep a track record of the traders, based on the bicoin addresses or GPG key used.
Nope. I think this line of thinking is a big problem in general in bitcoin community - you don't need to decentralize everything "perfectly". Perfection is the enemy of good enough. Or non-released perfect product is useless. For starters, I think that for this decentralized exchange to take off, we need a) very simple protocol, built on top of bitcoin block chain, which handles the very basics and b) centralized service, run on tor network, which offers the feature so that they can be easily used. People would use the centralized service, but they would have the opportunity to withdraw their shares from the centralized services to the decentralized protocol level. Advantages: good business model for the centralized service (fees etc), while still no trust required in the long-term for the centralized service (people can store their shares also in the block chain if they wish). |
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Regardless of what anyone says the reason is it boils down to this.
1) Money
2) Your a crypto lover or programmer interested in MONEY!!!
3) Its a hobby to make MONEY!
I mine to sell suckercoins bitcoins to the highest bidder so I can profit even more..
So 100% of people use BTC to profit, the rest are lying about why they mine.
Well, yeah. Personally I see nothing wrong with people wanting to profit. But not everyone wants to sell their bitcoins to the highest bidders, many here want to earn some bitcoins, and then buy products and services with bitcoins, not change them to FIAT. Some want to leave the fiat-money world behind, and transform their personal finances to the btc-economy. That is my personal long-term goal - I'm pretty sure there are still many years before I can actually do this (including paying rent, food in bitcoins), but the day will come. Also many of us don't mine, there are also other ways to earn bitcoins than mining. I personally also think that separating altruistic goals, such as changing the world for the better, and greedy goals such as profiting is a false dichotomy. You can combine the two. You can profit from doing something, and at the same time you can do something that changes the world for the better. Of course what "better" is, is highly subjective. |
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My girlfriend loves cupcakes, maybe she starts to like bitcoin more if a cupcake store in Finland also accepted bitcoin  Any info what kind of system they used for accepting payments? Bit-pay, android wallet, POS? |
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