btc name server
4 messages, 2 to 3 Aug 2013. Started by Chris Evans.
Chris Evans, Luke Dashjr, Rick Wesson, Jay F
wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id nameserver in the client software where a person can use a english name to describe a wallet public key address? and the software can use it to look up the wallet id.
wallet ids are hard to remember/recall.
-chris http://tawhakisoft.com/
Chris,
First, an important point: addresses are not wallet ids. They are single-use destinations for a single transaction. It isn't intended that anyone should remember them, just that they should send them electronically (or with eg, QR- Codes). Bitcoin does not (yet?) have a person/wallet identity system, but there are other mechanisms for this already (eg, PGP).
With regard to your idea, I believe it is satisfied by the new Payment Protocol that Gavin has been working on. You will be able to publish a URI for a website which people can reuse to pay you more than once.
Luke
On Friday, August 02, 2013 8:40:27 PM Chris Evans wrote:
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> wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id nameserver in > the client software where a person can use a english name to describe a > wallet public key address? and the software can use it to look up the > wallet id. > > wallet ids are hard to remember/recall. > > -chris > http://tawhakisoft.com/
I'd raised this topic before suggesting to leverage DNS as its kinda useful for mapping names to numbers.
Expect no support.
-rick
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Chris Evans <aaxiomfinity@gmail•com> wrote:
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> wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id nameserver in > the client software where a person can use a english name to describe a > wallet public key address? and the software can use it to look up the > wallet id. > > wallet ids are hard to remember/recall. > > -chris > http://tawhakisoft.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >
Namecoin already has an id/ and a/ (alias) namespace for such use:
{ "name" : "id/pichler", "value" : "\"BM-GtK6TiTtVo9toGVdk2zy3t4jGXZyZeMH\"", "expires_in" : 29397 }, { "name" : "id/pigeons", "value" : "{ bitcoin: 1BekNv7ezkx8eAjdkrUta2BTp9bbxU9LGG, bitmessage: BM-opfhTsUKdTezPiWFHxRQtM1ZMDvjKMkHf, ripple: rnziParaNb8nsU4aruQ dwYE3j5jUcqjzFm}", "expires_in" : 10089 }, { "name" : "id/pisces", "value" : "\"BM-GtK6TiTtVo9toGVdk2zy3t4jGXZyZeMH\"", "expires_in" : 32034 }, { "name" : "id/plattler", "value" : "\"BM-GtK6TiTtVo9toGVdk2zy3t4jGXZyZeMH\"", "expires_in" : 30999 }, { "name" : "id/pope", "value" : "{\n \"bitmessage\" : \"BM-2D7L1Suh1choaKt321Le3bS6PT6nxfWqpR\"\n}", "expires_in" : 29765 },
It's popular enough that it's been squat spammed by a few actors recently, and several bitmessage IDs are there along with Bitcoin addresses, etc.
On 8/2/2013 2:16 PM, Rick Wesson wrote:
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> I'd raised this topic before suggesting to leverage DNS as its kinda > useful for mapping names to numbers. > > Expect no support. > > -rick > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Chris Evans <aaxiomfinity@gmail•com > <mailto:aaxiomfinity@gmail.com>> wrote: > > wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id > nameserver in the client software where a person can use a english > name to describe a wallet public key address? and the software can > use it to look up the wallet id. > > wallet ids are hard to remember/recall. > > -chris > http://tawhakisoft.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > <mailto:Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >