Quote from: fadingin on June 14, 2017, 08:14:20 PM

Quote from: shbour on June 14, 2017, 05:38:04 PM

Quote from: fadingin on June 14, 2017, 04:25:41 PM

Full disclosure, not a dev here, so this is from a simple user perspective....

It seems like most coins are not being adopted for payments (if that's the primary use) by the masses because it's simply not easy enough to use. What I imagine would help is having a wallet users could install and send/receive to/from identifiable contacts (instead of wallet addresses). I know there's been decentralized dns attempted by other groups, but I was just curious if anything like that had been considered here at OkCash. Just trying to think of ways to make it easier for people to mass adopt, and that one came to mind. When someone figures out how to make it so simple for everyone, it will be a game changer IMO.

Well in your wallet you can have contacts, once you entered their address just like a phone book with phone numbers, and then you can label the address with the person's name or business name/company.

Also not a lot of people would want their name associated to 1 or more addresses directly on the network, if that's what you meant by contacts and decentralized DNS.

Yes, the contact thing in the wallet is great. It would just be nice to have something similar and super easy to use on our phones.

I totally understand people not wanting to be identified. For example, if anyone could view my PayPal balance by looking up my email address, I wouldn't like it either. But that's not exactly what I meant. I was thinking more of an optional thing, very similar to a decentralized contact list. If you were a business and wanted to accept OKCash, you could have a fixed alias or something.

Just throwing out ideas, that's all. I want OKCash to continue to succeed, so I was trying to think of problems (and solutions, no matter how half baked they sound coming from a non-dev) that most/all payments related coins still suffer from, like mass adoption. Most people still in this space (dev and non-dev alike) are curious tinkerers and want/like to figure things out, but whoever can come up with a way to bring usage to the masses holds a pretty big golden ticket I would think.

Does anyone remember GetGEMZ? Well, it fell flat on its face but I think they got one thing right. Their platform was primarily a mobile message app, but with crypto wallet integration. I think the right approach is the opposite, primarily a very user friendly mobile wallet, where the user can select one of their addresses as their public 'phonebook' address. Secondarily, the app identifies any of their contacts that also have the mobile wallet along with their public addresses, and allows messaging. Mobile first is going to be the strategy for mass adoption, and the app that gets people transacting with their friends, without inputting hex addresses is on to a winner.

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