javgh
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10 years ago BIPS has experimented with chirp.io a little bit. See:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BmUCI-vpQ4
- https://helpdesk.bips.me/index.php?/News/NewsItem/View/4/send-bitcoin-by-sound-waves-point-of-sale-mobile-checkout-bitcoin-ewallet-to-bitcoin-ewallet
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1oce66/send_bitcoin_by_sound_waves_point_of_sale_mobile/
As Matt said, chirp.io only transfers URLs to the actual content, which gets uploaded to the chirp.io server beforehand. I wonder if a payment request would be short enough to transfer directly via a technique like this. Someone tried to reverse-engineer the mechanism over here: http://ricardo.cc/2012/12/30/Implementing-the-chirp-protocol-using-webaudio.html .
While the location-based "find Hive users near me" will hopefully be a simple, fast way to add contacts or pay merchants from your wallet, there may be times when proves tricky. Or it might just turn out to be flaky.
http://chirp.io
This app uses very close proximity & just speakers & mic's to transfer URLs phone-to-phone. They bill it as a way to share your stuff, leading you to think the actual share data is transferred that way, but it's just a URL.If we could implement something like this, it could be an alternative way to share your public Hive address page in situations where geolocation is not working so well.