Hey guys, one of the creators of MyCA here, along with OP.
Cool creation, but seems like users would be unnecessarily trusting a 3rd party to give out their correct Bitcoin address. I’m not sure how you could resolve that issue, outside of building trust in the community so people are willing to accept the risk involved. Nice website.
I totally agree, we are looking into ways to make this decentralised. We've been looking at Ethereum name service and others to see if we could use concepts from their design to make it more safe. Also, turning it into a Ðapp might be a solution.
I'm not sure whether I'd actually use it, but I think that's pretty damn neat. Looks slick, works fine (at least for me), quick sign-up process... good luck, if it takes off it might just make crypto more attractive and accessible.
Also it was nice to see that satoshi's page was still up for grabs ;p
Haha! We were actually wondering when someone would pick up the Satoshi address!
We intentionally left it available, we were thinking on having a screen like "Oh you really thought this would be available, huh?". But decided on leaving it available
Congrats on claiming it!
Why would I shortlink my address? Some have vanity addresses and this kind of shortening will just defeat the purpose of having one. And besides, we love to see our addresses in our website isn't it? this is sort of like our digital signature. Anyways, best of luck to your project.
When mass adoption kicks in and regular people start using Bitcoin, I think that they will not love seeing their addresses on their website. That's the idea at least.
MyCA makes sense right now for receiving small donations, also the link is cool and it can be easily shared on social media.
Anyways, thanks for the feedback guys. We are going to look into ways to make it more trustworthy and decentralised!