c'était il y a un an  mais ça mérite de figurer dans cette revue de presse car c'est "historique" |
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At Paymium, we did our best by releasing a greek translation of Paytunia for android last week..  |
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Très bien...
Intelligible de bout en bout, c'est rare!
Perso, j'aurais apprécié une mise en avant plus nette de l'aspect FLOSS du système (qui n'est pas omis non plus, c'est vrai), mais globalement c'est une conversation de qualité entre deux gars qui ont chacun l'esprit clair...
Je supporte pas quand une interview part dans tous les sens, et là à aucun moment ça n'a été le cas... Véri goude!
Dès que je peux, je remets mon projet de podcast sur les rails, parce que le besoin de discussions publiques existe bel et bien!
Merci pour ton commentaire ! J'en profite pour poster la video de mon intervention à la Cantine (à Paris) hier pour "Pas sage en Seine 2012": http://lacantine.ubicast.eu/videos/bitcoin-12/Il y a deux parties: la première non technique, la seconde plus technique, plus longue avec les questions du public à la fin. |
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In recent years, a free software (it does not belong to any company) alows sending Bitcoins that can be traded online with sites like Bitcoin-central.net, at about $ 6 for one bitcoin. "Some 9 million bitcoins have already been created," notes Gonzague Grandval, from Paymium. Few e-merchants accept this virtual currency, but users sometimes use them in a peer-to-peer mode to share a restaurant or taxi..
To be honest, the article is about "mobile wallets" (whatever that means). I just thought that its probably the first time we see a link to an exchange in a mainstream newspaper (albeit only the electronic edition) |
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To send money you don't need the latest chain, unless you're sharing keys between wallets and might risk creating a double spend (so don't do that). In fact you don't even need internet access.
Now I am puzzled ! To send money, I need at least one confirmed unspent transaction. If my wallet was empty (I don't like carrying around a large amount on my mobile), I just sent a refill to it from my desktop client at home. Now I am on the go and I realize my smartphone was off: what do I do. I wait.. I know it's an edge case, but if we are aiming for mass market, it will happen a lot of times, enough times for many people to look for a thin client solution. |
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Thanks sipa for this thorough answer.
Incidentally, I have read somewhere that there are approximately the same number of bitcoin addresses as there are atoms on earth.
Did anyone check that ?
I guess it depends on your definition of "approximately". There are actually about 70 times as many atoms in the Earth as there are bitcoin addresses: Thanks: that's close enough  |
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I ordered a freebie. Thanks
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A smartphone that is switched off is pretty useless.
Do you suggest a smarter strategy when battery low, no charger available, need the phone in a couple hours to make a transaction, don't need it that much right now ? Of course, if I can update the chain without using up battery power, that's a major improvement. I am still unconvinced that the user experience will ever be as smooth as compared to a thin client. When paying, people want the transaction done in seconds: every second counts. |
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Good job. It's probably one the first time ever one can see a fair treatment of bitcoin in a mass media.
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It never takes me more than a few minutes to download two weeks of blockchain over the wifi. A little longer over the air. Samsung Galaxy 4S with all the latest firmware, etc.
That's fast. Anyway, those "few minutes" are the raison d'être for Paytunia (or other mobile e-wallet thin clients) on Android: when it's time to pay, the last thing people want is having to worry about a few minutes wait. With paytunia, payment is done in a matter of seconds. Actually, you can have the wallet set to sync any time its on the charger, which means you never wait AND you don't have to trust some third party to provide for your thin client. You DO wait when you simply turn off your device (to save battery time), turn it on again later then try to make a payment. My point is about the usability of a mobile client. Trust is a different matter. If you do not trust anyone but yourself, well you have to trust that you will back up your keys or not lose your smartphone. You also have to trust that the wallet code itself is not malicious: unless they are programmers, people have no way of checking even an open sourced code. They have to trust someone to review the code. |
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Thanks Vite: I just sent a donation  Transaction ID: 5db8c3088f1f61bf9bfc8aa6323e7c6c5a9a0aaca143da0f6b07be21a1236b67 5 BTC recieved Thank you very much Hey, de nada, you've got to feed the baby.  |
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Was it hosting the block chain in the app? Maybe AT&T and Verizon said get rid of it because of data or something.
No, we got the same answer from Apple. We're using the appeal process, for the second time, we got stonewalled the first time. We're not excluding a lawsuit since, as paying customers (developer licenses are not free) we believe we are entitled to either : - get told where the legal issue resides, - OR get an official developer guidelines update explicitly stating that Bitcoin is not cool on the AppStore (which would mean lots of press!) Have you heard anything back from Apple on your second appeal attempt? No the appeal process proposed by Apple is a joke: it's meant to be a waste of time for the small player who is not sitting on one hundred billion in cash/an unlimited amount of time like Apple does. They say they will call you and when they do, you end up talking to a trainee whose mission is to explain to you that you are f&@#d. |
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Welcome back ! For one thing I suggest you change the referral link in your signature to bitcoin-central.net .. |
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+1 for this initiative: let's spread the word !  |
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Thanks Vite: I just sent a donation |
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I'll keep you posted on the answer I get from the administration.
Did you get the answer? The three months have elapsed without any answer: that means I can apply the tax treatment I presented until the law changes and it wont be retroactive. |
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But to spread FUD that is opinionated and uneducated is just irresponsible.
+1 I could not agree more. It seems that OP was trying to get the message across how relative these different perceptions of trust or trust model are. Hosted wallets like paytunia or instawallet have been the target of biased and uneducated criticism. I have said before how damaging it can be for an emerging technology like bitcoin to be subjected to an ideological stance regarding security and trust models when usability and reliability are equally important factors of adoption. OP does not deserve accusations of being biased or uneducated, quite the opposite. |
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No, you get the bitcoin checks unfunded with the private key covered under a tamper evident sticker. You fund them yourself whenever you want.
There are also denominated bills that work like like casascius coins (they are funded for you by the issuer when you acknowledge good reception).
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