Quote from: casascius on October 11, 2012, 05:03:17 PM

Quote from: SgtSpike on October 11, 2012, 04:58:31 PM

That's the other part that confuses me... I can see someone being able to attach a name/address to a bitcoin address if they had access to the wire transfer data, but how would a random person on the internet be able to make that connection?

I was just going by the following:

Quote from: davout on October 11, 2012, 01:26:24 PM

We will probably never support firstbits addresses, think about it for a minute, by inputting someone's address I can instantly find out whether this person transacted with Instawire, what this person's IBAN and name are. Probably not the best idea when firstbits are often part of forum signatures.

I understood this to mean "If anyone inputs any bitcoin address into our system, they will be able to see the person's name and IBAN, so it's a good thing we don't allow firstbits, because some people's firstbits are available to the public and bitcoin addresses are not, and people might start seeing other people's personal information if we allow people to input firstbits".

Fair enough, now you only see obfuscated e-mails and IBANs, no names anymore. Also since day one we limit the number of address inputs per hour and per IP to 3 making it quite hard to bruteforce.

Quote from: D.H. on October 11, 2012, 07:04:14 PM

I wasn't looking for a feature, I just thought that you could tell me roughly what exchange fee you charge your customers. I can figure it out myself by observing your price changes and what the price is on markets such as Mt.Gox. at that time, I just thought that maybe you could save me the trouble.

Well, the truth is that humans set the price. There really is no algorithm. Sometimes we'll be a little more expensive than others, and sometimes we'll be a comparatively cheap.