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May 24, 2011, 05:34:51 PM |
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Kind of a vague title, and actually i know there has been discussion on the forums and elsewhere about this, but I was unable to find a reasonable solution to this problem as it stands now:
If someone does not want to be anonymous, ie prove to someone else that he owns a specific address or list of addresses of past transactions, how can one achieve this in a way that does not compromise a wallet?
For instance if I as a seller had a successful transaction with buyer A using address X, and wanted to prove to new buyer B that I was the owner of address X in order to build trust, how can buyer B verify this with out sending money to address X, etc?
On the flip side of this, how can a buyer prove that he sent money to someone using a specific address? And is there even a way to send money from a specific address you own?
Right now as I understand things it seems the only way to verify ownership of an address would be to have access to the physical wallet, or have the verifier send a random amount of coin to an address and have the unverified person respond with the amount. Please enlighten me!
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