linking mobile number with wallet public key? btc payment app!

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Quote from: cahirlet on May 17, 2014, 09:54:35 AM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on May 17, 2014, 09:07:06 AM

you can do it decentralized as well. have the app retain its own phonebook of numbers and addresses.
and you could still monetize it.

The app could easily manipulate the addresses. The person must first trust that the app will not give the person a fake address. There's quite some issues to consider about.

True, although that could happen with or without a centralized database.

If not open source, at least source code should be available.

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on May 17, 2014, 09:07:06 AM

you can do it decentralized as well. have the app retain its own phonebook of numbers and addresses.
and you could still monetize it.

The app could easily manipulate the addresses. The person must first trust that the app will not give the person a fake address. There's quite some issues to consider about.

jonald_fyookball

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you can do it decentralized as well. have the app retain its own phonebook of numbers and addresses.
and you could still monetize it.

cahirlet

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Should work. But it only makes the Bitcoin network more centralized since it pays through that app.

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Generally speaking, No reason why you couldn't do that. To generate a bitcoin address, all you need is a random number generator and some math operations.

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Just as Whatsapp identifies your mobile number the moment you install it,

please tell me how it is possible to develop an app which when installed could generate a public key and link your mobile number?

then send that information to the central server, by this way the central server shall have all the bitcoin public keys and the related mobile numberof whoever installed that app..

if Alice wants to send 1btc to a bob's number 9898989898...

The app bascially sends the fund to a default address of the central server along with the information of which mobile number it should be transacted.

The server looks up the database and sends the fund accordingly..

I truly believe if we want cryptocurrency to go mainstream countries like India then mobile phone are the doors for it!

I am not a devloper, What are your thoughts about this?

jonald_fyookball

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Sure why not.

cuddaloreappu

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Just as Whatsapp identifies your mobile number the moment you install it,

please tell me how it is possible to develop an app which when installed could generate a public key and link your mobile number?

then send that information to the central server, by this way the central server shall have all the bitcoin public keys and the related mobile numberof whoever installed that app..

if Alice wants to send 1btc to a bob's number 9898989898...

The app bascially sends the fund to a default address of the central server along with the information of which mobile number it should be transacted.

The server looks up the database and sends the fund accordingly..

I truly believe if we want cryptocurrency to go mainstream countries like India then mobile phone are the doors for it!

I am not a devloper, What are your thoughts about this?

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