What would it take to 'bump' bitcoins to each other?

[paulie_w]

technically speaking, what would be all of the steps involved in making a "bump two phones together to initiate a money transfer" platform work with bitcoin?

[theymos]

The recipient would give its public key to the sender, and the sender would create a transaction to that public key and send it to the recipient. Then both broadcast it on the network.

It would be like IP transactions.

[bitcoinex]

technically speaking, what would be all of the steps involved in making a "bump two phones together to initiate a money transfer" platform work with bitcoin?

GPRS internet + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication

[ffe]

The recipient would give its public key to the sender, and the sender would create a transaction to that public key and send it to the recipient. Then both broadcast it on the network.

It would be like IP transactions.

You could just bump them together. http://bu.mp/. The phones themselves would then exchange public keys and the sender would create the bitcoin transaction.

[TiagoTiago]

I once saw this thing about this technology that used the human body as a conduit, so you could keep your phone or other pocktable computing device in your pocket and simply shake hands to seal the deal.

[Anonymous]

I once saw this thing about this technology that used the human body as a conduit, so you could keep your phone or other pocktable computing device in your pocket and simply shake hands to seal the deal.

I see what you did there