Topic: Bitcoin needs to be simplified for the stupid. - page 7. (Read 7638 times)

it's already part of the uri scheme (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme). You can put an amount into a bitcoin payment uri.

edit: needless to say you can make a qr-code representing such uri.

side-note: try blockchain.info wallet "create payment request". It allows to enter an amount and produces a qr-code.

Keep it complicated it keeps the competition low - Actually make it MORE complicated

that's when things will really take off I think..
they could be preloaded before being sold, like a gift card

I'm sure there will be companies offering Automated BitCards for withdrawals and purchases before too long. Sort of like pre-paid ATM cards.

I like this idea.  It's too bad there has been such little development with that

I'm talking about something so easy, you virtually take the internet right out of it (or at least keep that part hidden from the user interface).  Just because we are making it easier doesn't mean we have to sacrifice security.  Last time I checked, grandma's safety deposit box was guarded pretty heavily.  

Yes, we need way more of steps in the direction to simplify things.

Small suggestion:
I don't know if they exist yet, but I think there should also be "Payment-Request"-QR-Codes.
Like you scan them and get a prompt with a message "Pay 1.337 BTC?" (+value in $/€) and all you have to do is click yes or no.
Only for small amounts though, higher amounts should be typed in manually.

I am preaching to the choir here but the exchange process from fiat to BTC and back again is so painfully complex and wrought with risk that it is no wonder that adoption is limited to the very technical right now. Wallet security is also complex and burdensome. I always rate consumer adoption ease based on a formula   - the amount of hours it would take to explain it to my mother in law * the amount of hours per week I would spend helping her after she started using it (the lower the number the better) eg and Iphone is about is about a 1 or a 2 - Bitcoin would be in the 100's

If it was easier then that would allow more fraud to take place. If people can't go to a website and open a free Wallet then they shouldn't be handling finances on the internet anyway.

Bitcoin really does need to be easier.  For God's sake - it's people's hard earned money.  Who would want to risk losing their money with the click of a mouse?  I agree with the OP on most things, although I do have to give credit to the geeks who have been very patient and nice (I'm somewhat ignorant with computers) on this board, the LTC, and the PpC boards over the past month.  Thanks to all of them.

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One of the big barriers with Bitcoin is that the majority of its users and developers are, to put it bluntly, ignorant computer nerds.  They are extremely smart, yet completely ignorant to what the average person is capable of (no offense, its an impairment of social interaction and nothing to be ashamed of!) .  Even with a seemingly simple system, like bitcoinATM, it is dependent on the assumption that a user knows what the difference between a public key and a private key is.  The general public still finds the basics of this system confusing.  There should be a very big priority in ensuring that Grandma knows how to send bitcoins.  Wouldn't that be a HUGE step?  To be able to say "She can't open a e-mail, but she can send bitcoins!" would be evolution.  That's what bitcoin needs to be.  This simplification would magnify the potential by 1000 times.  

Not sure how this would be done.  It will take somebody who is not just technically smart, but extremely creative as well.  How can we make bitcoin as simple as pulling out your physical wallet?  And don't tell me "there's an iphone app for that!", because Grandma is still rotary dialing.  

I believe if you can make it simple enough that even Grandma can use it, then you are opening up some pretty big fucking doors for Bitcoin.

So what's next in the simplification of Bitcoin?