Topic: verify ownership of addresses and past transactions (Read 1041 times)
thanks for the responses. I was hoping there would be a better way. I know if you run a server, there are commands you can send to it to receive a list of addresses, but I don't know if you can communicate with a server in like a "read only" mode so you wouldn't be able to command it to send coins. Something like that would be good, but it requires a little work on the users side to have a running server, give out an ip address ppl can connect to etc. Not ideal, but I cant find any other methods that would achieve what i am looking for.
On the flip side of this, how can a buyer prove that he sent money to someone using a specific address? And is there even a way to send money from a specific address you own?
This was discussed here:
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=4411.0
I believe the seller can only be sure you sent him/her bitcoins, when he/she gave you an address nobody knows (a newly generated one). Proving an address belongs to you without sending money to it is difficult I guess.
Kind of a vague title, and actually i know there has been discussion on the forums and elsewhere about this, but I was unable to find a reasonable solution to this problem as it stands now:
If someone does not want to be anonymous, ie prove to someone else that he owns a specific address or list of addresses of past transactions, how can one achieve this in a way that does not compromise a wallet?
For instance if I as a seller had a successful transaction with buyer A using address X, and wanted to prove to new buyer B that I was the owner of address X in order to build trust, how can buyer B verify this with out sending money to address X, etc?
On the flip side of this, how can a buyer prove that he sent money to someone using a specific address? And is there even a way to send money from a specific address you own?
Right now as I understand things it seems the only way to verify ownership of an address would be to have access to the physical wallet, or have the verifier send a random amount of coin to an address and have the unverified person respond with the amount. Please enlighten me!
If someone does not want to be anonymous, ie prove to someone else that he owns a specific address or list of addresses of past transactions, how can one achieve this in a way that does not compromise a wallet?
For instance if I as a seller had a successful transaction with buyer A using address X, and wanted to prove to new buyer B that I was the owner of address X in order to build trust, how can buyer B verify this with out sending money to address X, etc?
On the flip side of this, how can a buyer prove that he sent money to someone using a specific address? And is there even a way to send money from a specific address you own?
Right now as I understand things it seems the only way to verify ownership of an address would be to have access to the physical wallet, or have the verifier send a random amount of coin to an address and have the unverified person respond with the amount. Please enlighten me!
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