Quote from: teff on July 17, 2010, 09:29:24 AM

The biggest problem I foresee with a mobile client having thought about it, is that you could loose a certain amount of anonymity.

If the carrier knows your location and can recognise or at least guess at certain traffic been bitcoin, then when you start the app to make a transaction to another mobile user in the same location it may be possible to tie the two together.

The same even goes for using a mobile website. I think ideally you need something like Tor running on the device to avoid the such a problem, and it needs to be running all the time really or your internet activity when you fire it up for a transaction will be a dead giveaway.

Of course this is only a significant problem when bitcoin gains enough of a foothold to cause governments to take notice, and hopefully by that time it will already be to late Cheesy

Or the region that starts using bitcoin can use something like this: http://guifi.net

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