[ANN] myb.tc bitcoinaddress shortener

2weiX

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Quote from: el kaka22 on August 12, 2015, 05:59:04 AM

Just see many of you got a short url of 3 letters:

Quote from: twister on June 22, 2015, 01:40:29 PM

It's pretty nice, one more use of it is you can add it below your avatar, as personal text because that field doesn't allow too many characters and it will look cool.

This is my link btw: http://myb.tc/QJT

And here's testing if the currency convert thing works or not http://myb.tc/QJT/9.99USD

Edit: It looks good, if someone wants to test that, go right ahead Wink

'JK'

Great work guys, congrats.

Quote from: 2weiX on April 11, 2015, 01:12:09 PM

Quote from: Jeremycoin on April 11, 2015, 05:56:59 AM

So, what can I do with this shortener?
I just enter an address and the site generating QR Code and a link.
Then, what is the purpose of that?

The purpose (at least that's how we used btc.to back in the day) was to enter your bitcoin address and then only memorize the shortlink.
Say, you enter your paper wallet public address (1Fqi5DTDRBLeu7XCi7fZvHMpd35Qs3U8sT) and receive the short url http://myb.tc/LJI.

Now, if someone wants to send you bitcoin, you can just tell them to "go to myb.tc/LJI and send the bitcoins". They can then copypaste the address on their desktop pc and enter it into their wallet software. They could also scan the code without you being there and send. You could also pull up the link on your mobile and have your friend scan it with their app when you meet up.

Why is this useful?

- no need to carry a wallet on your phone to request BTC
- no need to copypaste addresses via email
- instantly accessible QR code even for remote locations.

I've used the hell out of btc.to and I hope others might find this service equally useful.

But my link is with 3 numbers: http://myb.tc/978. Why is this happening? Is it designed for people so that they can get all numbers/letters?

it's random. you could also have gotten X35 or XQ1.

altcoinhosting2

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Thanks man, great tool...

I just tested it out, worked perfect for me http://myb.tc/73N

Also, the Money-request tool is great http://myb.tc/73N/1.00USD

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Just see many of you got a short url of 3 letters:

Quote from: twister on June 22, 2015, 01:40:29 PM

It's pretty nice, one more use of it is you can add it below your avatar, as personal text because that field doesn't allow too many characters and it will look cool.

This is my link btw: http://myb.tc/QJT

And here's testing if the currency convert thing works or not http://myb.tc/QJT/9.99USD

Edit: It looks good, if someone wants to test that, go right ahead Wink

'JK'

Great work guys, congrats.

Quote from: 2weiX on April 11, 2015, 01:12:09 PM

Quote from: Jeremycoin on April 11, 2015, 05:56:59 AM

So, what can I do with this shortener?
I just enter an address and the site generating QR Code and a link.
Then, what is the purpose of that?

The purpose (at least that's how we used btc.to back in the day) was to enter your bitcoin address and then only memorize the shortlink.
Say, you enter your paper wallet public address (1Fqi5DTDRBLeu7XCi7fZvHMpd35Qs3U8sT) and receive the short url http://myb.tc/LJI.

Now, if someone wants to send you bitcoin, you can just tell them to "go to myb.tc/LJI and send the bitcoins". They can then copypaste the address on their desktop pc and enter it into their wallet software. They could also scan the code without you being there and send. You could also pull up the link on your mobile and have your friend scan it with their app when you meet up.

Why is this useful?

- no need to carry a wallet on your phone to request BTC
- no need to copypaste addresses via email
- instantly accessible QR code even for remote locations.

I've used the hell out of btc.to and I hope others might find this service equally useful.

But my link is with 3 numbers: http://myb.tc/978. Why is this happening? Is it designed for people so that they can get all numbers/letters?

btc_enigma

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Although this looks cool, this has a problem with centralization and has huge risks.

You could easily change the bitcoin address of link on your server to your own address anytime.
I would recommend a more decentralized solution:

Use a chrome/firefox extension to shortlen/lookup
Use a decentralized api like onename to store shortened links

2weiX

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well, I did add a little ad to the bottom and tweaked it a little.
as soon as SSL certs come free, I'll have the site SSL'd as well.

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Quote from: ikydesu on July 15, 2015, 02:00:21 AM

Quote from: melisande on July 15, 2015, 01:42:44 AM

Quote from: ikydesu on July 14, 2015, 05:20:36 PM

Quote from: melisande on July 14, 2015, 12:12:38 PM

Very pretty tool my long btc address is shorten realtime to what I can easily remember, add more features to it so that we can get paid for shorten our btc address Cool

This is tools for shorter bitcoin address only, not for commercials. Just helping people to remember long address character.

This is not related to advertisement Roll Eyes

Perhaps but anybody that like to make money will always think in a commercial way.

I don't get the point if this bitcoin address shortener can earn money Roll Eyes

because this is no comercial and nothing to advertising Roll Eyes

I said I was thinking in the area of services like https://shorte.st initially.

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Quote from: melisande on July 15, 2015, 01:42:44 AM

Quote from: ikydesu on July 14, 2015, 05:20:36 PM

Quote from: melisande on July 14, 2015, 12:12:38 PM

Very pretty tool my long btc address is shorten realtime to what I can easily remember, add more features to it so that we can get paid for shorten our btc address Cool

This is tools for shorter bitcoin address only, not for commercials. Just helping people to remember long address character.

This is not related to advertisement Roll Eyes

Perhaps but anybody that like to make money will always think in a commercial way.

I don't get the point if this bitcoin address shortener can earn money Roll Eyes

because this is no comercial and nothing to advertising Roll Eyes

melisande

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Quote from: ikydesu on July 14, 2015, 05:20:36 PM

Quote from: melisande on July 14, 2015, 12:12:38 PM

Very pretty tool my long btc address is shorten realtime to what I can easily remember, add more features to it so that we can get paid for shorten our btc address Cool

This is tools for shorter bitcoin address only, not for commercials. Just helping people to remember long address character.

This is not related to advertisement Roll Eyes

Perhaps but anybody that like to make money will always think in a commercial way.

ikydesu

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Quote from: melisande on July 14, 2015, 12:12:38 PM

Very pretty tool my long btc address is shorten realtime to what I can easily remember, add more features to it so that we can get paid for shorten our btc address Cool

This is tools for shorter bitcoin address only, not for commercials. Just helping people to remember long address character.

This is not related to advertisement Roll Eyes

melisande

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Very pretty tool my long btc address is shorten realtime to what I can easily remember, add more features to it so that we can get paid for shorten our btc address Cool

dieselmeister

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some two new functions are available:

1. tap or click on the bar code on both screens (address and money request) and your bitcoin-app should automatically start and use the data to generate a payment

2. on the address screen you are able to enter a money request. (currently USD and EUR - other currencies comming soon)

havin fun Grin

twister

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It's pretty nice, one more use of it is you can add it below your avatar, as personal text because that field doesn't allow too many characters and it will look cool.

This is my link btw: http://myb.tc/QJT

And here's testing if the currency convert thing works or not http://myb.tc/QJT/9.99USD

Edit: It looks good, if someone wants to test that, go right ahead Wink

'JK'

Great work guys, congrats.

btcspry

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I guess I could see this being useful in the same ways that URL shorteners are (so Youtube, Twitter, etc.)

What this is missing is a Chrome Extension and FireFox Extension (and dare I say it, an IE extension) to make it really easy for people to insert this kind of link. If you're interested in having one designed for any of the browsers (as Chrome as about 50% of the browser market share, it's the one I'd start with if I were you), PM me and we could work something out!

dieselmeister

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Quote from: tyz on May 28, 2015, 06:06:43 AM

Are you using an algorithm for creating the seed behind the domain address? Wondering because my shortened address has three letters.

The letters are totally random and unique. If needed, the system will expanding to 4 letters and 5 and so on Wink

2weiX

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Quote from: tyz on May 28, 2015, 06:06:43 AM

Are you using an algorithm for creating the seed behind the domain address? Wondering because my shortened address has three letters.

not that I am aware of. we just randomly grab thre characters and make them a link.

defcon23

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Nice work

anyway really interesting !

tyz

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Are you using an algorithm for creating the seed behind the domain address? Wondering because my shortened address has three letters.

2weiX

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I dunno.

summoning dieselmeister!

coinpr0n

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I said already I really like this. Short URLs are great for sharing. But now you got me wondering... would it be very hard to allow full addresses to be looked up as well? Eg. http://myb.tc/1ocQJhevwiFE2LdRcDqmuGSRyf3wVLZX9 would show the QR for that address. I know that wasn't the original point - just wondering.

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Quote from: 2weiX on May 19, 2015, 01:16:38 PM

right? ;-D

btw dieselmeister ist the one who wrote this for me, at lest 1/4 of the props go to him^^

^^

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