Are you a Bitcoin user? Prove it!

[dustintrammell]

Are you a Bitcoin user? Prove it!

[dustintrammell]

LMAO to prove i am a bitcoin user I send you bitcoins LMAO I give you credit for that one sneaky. But no.

You don't think someone would give up a measley 0.00000001 BTC to earn a Bitcoin achievement?  If you note, it says to send ANY amount...  The point is proof, not value.

[dustintrammell]

How about you have someone sign a bitcoin address, and you check to see the amount inside, it is free and works.

That would be a good option if it were easy for normal users.  Most Bitcoin users are not going to know how to use a Bitcoin private key to sign an address.  Sending BTC to another user is the lowest common denominator use case.

[Raoul Duke]

How about you have someone sign a bitcoin address, and you check to see the amount inside, it is free and works.

That would be a good option if it were easy for normal users.  Most Bitcoin users are not going to know how to use a Bitcoin private key to sign an address.  Sending BTC to another user is the lowest common denominator use case.

You mean that they can't press 2 buttons on bitcoin-qt?
Damn, bitcoin has some pretty dumb users...

NEWS FLASH: not everyone around here is called Maria, you know?

[ercolinux]

How about you have someone sign a bitcoin address, and you check to see the amount inside, it is free and works.

That would be a good option if it were easy for normal users.  Most Bitcoin users are not going to know how to use a Bitcoin private key to sign an address.  Sending BTC to another user is the lowest common denominator use case.

Actually signing and verification pretty simple if you can't figure it out then you shouldn't be using bitcoins js

+1 on this, but don't work also on who use only online wallet (new users or casual user)

It can be done even in a simplier way: who want to be counted has only to announce that in the next 15-20 minutes  do a transfer of a certain amount of BTC to one address choosen from his pool of addresses, so even who use online wallet can do and still is a good proof

[dustintrammell]

Actually signing and verification pretty simple if you can't figure it out then you shouldn't be using bitcoins js

+1 on this, but don't work also on who use only online wallet (new users or casual user)

It can be done even in a simplier way: who want to be counted has only to announce that in the next 15-20 minutes  do a transfer of a certain amount of BTC to one address choosen from his pool of addresses, so even who use online wallet can do and still is a good proof

Thanks for making the point I was about to.  The use case that you guys are mentioning require you to use bitcoin-qt.  Not all users use a desktop wallet.  Some use mobile device wallets, some use web wallets, etc.  Again, the lowest common denominator use case for a Bitcoin user is to send and receive an actual Bitcoin (or fraction thereof).

I find it really amazing that so many people balk at sending a Satoshi (:

[dustintrammell]

Actually a lot of wallets do support signing so your incorrect that a person only needs bitcoin-qt to sign. Since my iphone's wallet which is blockchain.info the only wallet that is on the iphone, unless you have passbook with instawallet, it supports signing. It is the correct way of doing this. Instead of sending it to some random guy on the internet. Yes I am balking at sending a satoshi which in the future could be worth $10 or $100 so yeah. Plus many people use bitcoin-qt since it is a powerful wallet and the official one, so I don't see why you can't have both options.

You are correct that I misspoke; I was being overly general.  My point was, not ALL wallets support message signing, however all of them do support sending and receiving Bitcoin.

That said, there is an easy solution to this problem.  See the updated achievement description.