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Re: Suggestion: Allow short messages to be sent together with bitcoins ?
by
grondilu
on 23/10/2010, 15:28:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by Foxpup (3) ,ETFbitcoin (1)
Bitcoin is great, but it misses one thing that usual bank transfers have: payment title.

Perhaps it should be possible to include short (<=512 bytes) message for each transaction.
The message could be encrypted with public/private keys so only the receiver can see its contents.

What do You think ?

I red somewhere that the kind of keys used in the software supports signature, but not encryption.

Since it is very easy to create a new bitcoin address for each transaction, a paiement label is not necessary.  Just use the bitcoin address as a reference for your message, and transmit it via email or any other way of communication.