In addition, the same reason applies why Mangocoinz (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-mangocoinz-official-the-mobile-crypto-currency-1221198) can never be a serious coin.
It's easy to emulate tons of mobiles on PC, all with different HWID with a modified client that generates points without even having to emulate an accelerometer.
Anything that can be emulated is easy to cheat and the mobile platform falls into that. I've never touched Mango but I'm sure some people made a few BTCs off of it by cheating the system.
Topic: Fingerprint distribution and wallet access (Read 521 times)
man I can't believe no one posted this as a response...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_VAfVhsvOA
@op its a splendid idea but not very practical. Same line of thought though you might look into fingerprinting a pc system. I wanna say it's been tried before but for the life of me I cannot remember the name of the coin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_VAfVhsvOA
@op its a splendid idea but not very practical. Same line of thought though you might look into fingerprinting a pc system. I wanna say it's been tried before but for the life of me I cannot remember the name of the coin.
It's too easy to cheat. The problem with phone apps is that it's easy to emulate hardware on PC so you can generate as much unique fingerprints as you would like without using a fingerprint reader.
Oh well this kinda does kill the idea.
Wonder if there is any other way to bypass this.It's too easy to cheat. The problem with phone apps is that it's easy to emulate hardware on PC so you can generate as much unique fingerprints as you would like without using a fingerprint reader.
I share this opinion. Cheating would be trivial. Google fingerprint security and you can read about its flaws.
Oh really didn't know that.
It's too easy to cheat. The problem with phone apps is that it's easy to emulate hardware on PC so you can generate as much unique fingerprints as you would like without using a fingerprint reader.
Had this idea last night, we have all seen how the Samsung s5 has the "unluck phone by fingerprint"-function and with technology rising and the future near, I'm sure that this will be something to be used more often and made simpler for most people.
How difficult would it be to make a new coin where the distribution of it would include a certain amount per fingerprint. When people open up the new wallet on their app, it will require them to add their fingerprint to it, the database would notice it's a new fingerprint and award him his share of the "pre-mined" distribution and at the same time he would be able to use his wallet with said fingerprint.
Now I am not saying to add names and ID's to those fingerprints, but just as a necessity that no one would be able to cheat the system and get themselves more than 1 share of the distribution. I know this can be avoided with ID's but in the cryptoworld no one likes to send their ID's to strangers, and what harm could strangers do with a shit-ton of fingerprints instead? Not much I bet.
Just an idea, let me know what you think of it.
How difficult would it be to make a new coin where the distribution of it would include a certain amount per fingerprint. When people open up the new wallet on their app, it will require them to add their fingerprint to it, the database would notice it's a new fingerprint and award him his share of the "pre-mined" distribution and at the same time he would be able to use his wallet with said fingerprint.
Now I am not saying to add names and ID's to those fingerprints, but just as a necessity that no one would be able to cheat the system and get themselves more than 1 share of the distribution. I know this can be avoided with ID's but in the cryptoworld no one likes to send their ID's to strangers, and what harm could strangers do with a shit-ton of fingerprints instead? Not much I bet.
Just an idea, let me know what you think of it.
How do you prove that the finger print is a genuine one and not artificially created?
That is the hurdle to over come for a system like that to work at least sort of well.
Had this idea last night, we have all seen how the Samsung s5 has the "unluck phone by fingerprint"-function and with technology rising and the future near, I'm sure that this will be something to be used more often and made simpler for most people.
How difficult would it be to make a new coin where the distribution of it would include a certain amount per fingerprint. When people open up the new wallet on their app, it will require them to add their fingerprint to it, the database would notice it's a new fingerprint and award him his share of the "pre-mined" distribution and at the same time he would be able to use his wallet with said fingerprint.
Now I am not saying to add names and ID's to those fingerprints, but just as a necessity that no one would be able to cheat the system and get themselves more than 1 share of the distribution. I know this can be avoided with ID's but in the cryptoworld no one likes to send their ID's to strangers, and what harm could strangers do with a shit-ton of fingerprints instead? Not much I bet.
Just an idea, let me know what you think of it.
How difficult would it be to make a new coin where the distribution of it would include a certain amount per fingerprint. When people open up the new wallet on their app, it will require them to add their fingerprint to it, the database would notice it's a new fingerprint and award him his share of the "pre-mined" distribution and at the same time he would be able to use his wallet with said fingerprint.
Now I am not saying to add names and ID's to those fingerprints, but just as a necessity that no one would be able to cheat the system and get themselves more than 1 share of the distribution. I know this can be avoided with ID's but in the cryptoworld no one likes to send their ID's to strangers, and what harm could strangers do with a shit-ton of fingerprints instead? Not much I bet.
Just an idea, let me know what you think of it.
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