[Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

[Mike Hearn]

This is the sort of thing the payment protocol is for. The recipient would
vend a PaymentRequest containing identity details. The sender would submit
a Payment containing his/hers. The wallet then understands what to do.


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Wendell <w at grabhive.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We're thinking about ways of automatically exchanging contact details
> between wallets, in order to encourage the proliferation of identifiable
> names and photos rather than long and hard-to-verify addresses.
>
> The simplest version goes like this:
>
> 2 BTC Bitcoin is sent to someone, and a data lookup hash is inserted into
> the transaction. When it arrives on the other end, it is indeed looked up,
> and instead of being presented with a dialogue that says "you received 2
> BTC from 13Y94z43Nbbb6wevRyk82CeDoYQ5S28zmA", it's "You received 2 BTC from
> Frank Jones" including a nice photo.
>
> Now. We can simply delete this data in reference to the transaction ID
> after it happens (or delete it after a time), but is there any more
> decentralized way to do it? I would prefer us to run no dedicated servers
> that would ever put us in a position of being coerced into giving data, or
> otherwise altering our system to store it.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> -wendell
>
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>
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