Topic: [ANN] First Bitcoin and Litecoin address shortener (Quick Coin Lookup qcl.me) (Read 1662 times)

It should be back up now

I added the ability to shorten Feathercoins (FC) and PPCoin (PPC) addresses to the list of addresses you can shorten.

I have added the ability to shorten bitmessage addresses, in the same safe and secure manner like the other addresses

I added operation fabulous so you can get ads on the site, for 0.01 for about ~30 uniques (according to google analytics) and growing. I work hard marking be get your ads for cheap before they are rise with the amount of people visiting.

I just added tabs to the bitcoin address page, so it isn't so cluttered, so when you land on a bitcoin address page, it only shows block explorers, then if you want to the see the Tip button code, you just click the tab, and it will be presented to you.

Down?
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://qcl.me/

Yes theymos doesn't allow images in your in signature, that is a forum rule, not my service. Sorry about that.

tried to use it as signature, but says "image removed" 

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bitcoin-tip-me-buttons-156032

I have added tip buttons for the bitcoin side, so you can easily embed them on your site or on this forum! Check them out.

Sound way better than https://btc.to/ will check it out!

I know there are two other shorteners but I did this as a hobby project and to add to my portfolio. Now your probably asking why use my shortener then any other shortener, lets explore this together. First off if you look at http://payb.tc how do you know how your addresses and short name are stored? I am guessing plain text. Quick Coin Lookup doesn't store any addresses with the short name in plain text. It stores the short names in a hash format, just like a password. It using a hash and a salt, so if a hacker gained control of the database they wouldn't be able to find your short name just by looking at it. Now storing the address took a little more cleverness, it is stored in AES-256 encryption using the short name and salt as the key. So now you know your addresses aren't able to be changed, easily by a hacker, plus the system is self alerting, it can tell if the AES and short name don't match alerting the users, and will not display the decrypted address. Plus the domain name is shorter.

Now moving on the next shortener is the Mt Gox http://btc.to. BTC uses first bits which is encouraging spamming the blockchain, that is inappropriate just for the purpose of a shortener. Also it doesn't support litecoins or more than one explorer which QCL does both.


Other features, one click copy (Flash and Javascript), Only address shortener that supports link to open address in clients that support it,  includes qr code on the page in a big picture, blocks spammy short names to not be confused, only can register one address and short name a day so you can't spam or take all the short names.

http://qcl.me/
http://qcl.me/faq for more information
http://qcl.me/api/ for information about the simple API
http://qcl.me/donate or http://qcl.me/gweedo for what an address page looks like

I would gladly add other altcoins so leave it in the thread. (Important point, to have altcoins added it must have at least one block explorer and the address should be different from a bitcoin address.

Leave any other questions, comments, feature request in the threads...