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Re: grin is now accepted for forum payments
by
LennySands
on 17/01/2019, 22:17:43 UTC

By default they want you to essentially pay to IP addresses. This was stupid when Satoshi tried it 10 years ago, and it's stupid now. At the very least you should strongly encourage (ie. nearly force) people to give out public keys along with their IPs, since otherwise MITM attacks are trivial. Even then it sucks to require the recipient to run an open-to-the-Internet server at all. And for goodness' sake, don't use the broken/centralized HTTPS system; the Bitcoin Core devs have been going to a lot of trouble trying to remove that garbage from Core.

Grin also supports keybase for the slate exchange which solves both the key distribution problem and the authentication problem.

https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/Wallet-User-Guide#keybase