Quote from: metoro on May 01, 2013, 02:16:16 AM

I was just thinking about the possibility of harnessing the conventional domain name system as a means to store wallet addresses such that you could direct a transaction to a URL something like:

wallet.mydomain.com

Could this be achieved using the TXT-type record on the DNS for the subdomain? Would be pretty cool to define a standard for this. The record could contain addresses for various wallet types - e.g.

wallet.mydomain.com. TXT "wallet=btc:1K59yRiX3Vvp2jZyHYDmmzGaGehLFL9aWy xrp:raiE52Ws8wYjh8k93dDDUqq4HwkfPhR6fA"

This seems so obvious that I assume I'm either being stupid somehow, or that this is an old idea, but thought I'd chuck it out there...

Ben

So to pay someone on an anonymous transaction system you need to access a logging DNS server and leave a littered trail of queries? I'm just verifying your plan here. I'll be sure to use this on a torland website so idiots give me their IP addresses.

Congratulations, you just invented the 1x1 transparent .gif for bitcoin.