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btc.to support #30

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Support for btc.to for sending and recieving.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jjj...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 8:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
I must admit that I hate URI shorteners in general and also I don't trust them. 
How do I know that they (or an attacker) don't silently change their shortened 
URLs? For Bitcoin address shorteners, this is even more of an issue.

I'm still waiting for the shortener whose output (shortened) URI is a 
cryptohash of the input URI. This would allow a client to detect tampering. On 
the other hand, a secure hash would not be any shorter than the Bitcoin address 
to start with.

What do other people think?

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 11:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
I'm pretty sure btc.to is from the people from MtGox and is used in the 
official MTGox App. It is also used and supported in #bitcoin-otc, the largest 
OTC bitcoin market.

Original comment by jjj...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 6:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
They also have built in QR support. But I'm not sure if that'll help.

So address 1J6973u4SGRCZxAEywz5XUMHrqG9XXqieR becomes https://btc.to/19e/ and 
the QR link is https://btc.to/19e/qr

Original comment by jjj...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2011 at 2:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Another option would be support for the firstbits algorithm, which is grounded 
in the blockchain - see http://firstbits.com and 
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16217.0

Original comment by neal...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2011 at 3:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Issue 73 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2012 at 4:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
I don't think this will be implemented anytime soon. As soon as HD wallets are 
implemented, addresses will be used only once anyway. At present, I suggest 
using QR codes and NFC for transmitting addresses.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 11:00