2013-04-25 Bitcoin Is A Step Closer To Becoming A Part Of Your Web Browser

[conspirosphere.tk]

 

Imagine you’re buying socks or more likely, since this is bitcoin, assault rifles stuffed with heroin. On the checkout webpage, the “buy” button could use the “bitcoin:” link, which would automatically pop open your bitcoin wallet, which might reside in an external application, on another website, or even in your browser itself. In any event, it would make paying with bitcoin dead easy and absolutely universal.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-closer-to-being-in-web-browsers-2013-4

[aigeezer]

The story references an interesting discussion thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598033

No "assault rifle/heroin" fluff there, but still not without mischief, for example:

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how i can see name of user who committed this?

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unfletch 1 day ago | link

The name is always "Ian Hickson". He's the only committer on the HTML5 SVN repo:

   $ svn log -q | egrep "^r\d+" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c
   7850  ianh

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bpierre 1 day ago | link

In the commit-watchers mailing list: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/commit-watchers-whatwg.org...

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eric_bullington 1 day ago | link

Looks like Mike Hearn, googler and core Bitcoin developer.

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One poster there notes that BTC is not a currency, according to ISO 4217 currency code designations. I hope someone here is working on changing that, subject to the law of unintended consequences of course. 

Apparently not all currency codes are from nation states, not all nation states have currency codes, and the US$ somehow gets three codes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217