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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: ‘Decentralized’ Bitcoin Wallet is available in iOS
by
voisine
on 20/09/2014, 00:50:37 UTC
Thank's for all the hardwork! I downloaded the wallet and have been messing around with it on one of my iPhones.

While I have your ear, you ever consider implementing a name service for the wallet to map the addresses to friendly words? https://rushwallet.com/ currently uses:
 http://opennamesystem.org/
https://github.com/opennamesystem/openspecs
https://onename.io/

In essence you register the usernames u/ on the namecoin blockchain and associate some type of JSON data with the username containing information about the user, payment address etc. I see correlations with this type of service and DNS we use to map ip's to names.

I gave it a 5 Star rating Smiley

I'm glad you like it.

I definitely would like to make it easier to pay people in an address book, or some more user friendly identifier than a bitcoin address. Users shouldn't have to see or care about bitcoin addresses anymore than they see or care about IP addresses, however it can't be implemented in a way that encourages address re-use. There is a strong use case for fixed addresses, but it needs to be done using something like stealth addresses to protect financial privacy and not have funds kept on addresses who's pubkey is exposed.