Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Mike Hearn
It needs people to use either a dedicated app or a wallet with the right features. I've gone back and forth on whether it's better to have wallets become featureful things or to have lots of separate apps. There are pro's and con's to each. Fortunately bitcoinj makes bringing up a new GUI wallet a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
On Sep 5, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Wendell wrote: >> Funny you should mention it! I just mocked this idea up last week, though I >> assumed a cruder system of "voting" to an address that corresponds to a >> feature -- literally, voting with your wal

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Social network integration (brainstorm)

2013-09-05 Thread Mats Henricson
The Trsst project (Twitter + RSS + Google Reader = Trsst social network) has some interesting ideas: http://www.trsst.com/paper/ Quote: In Trsst, every user account is a digital wallet. Authors and individual pieces of content can receive secure and anonymous micro-payments of digital c

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Mike Hearn
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Wendell wrote: > Funny you should mention it! I just mocked this idea up last week, though > I assumed a cruder system of "voting" to an address that corresponds to a > feature -- literally, voting with your wallet (for your wallet, ad > infinitum). I watched your

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
Hey Mike! On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > It might be simpler to not think of it as an app store, but rather see it as > a set of affiliate schemes. To get placed into the apps section you can say > that the business must have an affiliate scheme in place (i.e. open to more > t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Social network integration (brainstorm)

2013-09-05 Thread Mike Hearn
> > Since this process would necessarily be somewhat manual and would of > course be "undone" anytime the user changed his/her profile image, it is > probably not a solution for everyone. I guess these days most Facebook/G+/Twitter users are logged in from their smartphone , so you'd implement it

Re: [Bitcoin-development] GB V04

2013-09-05 Thread Mike Hearn
Please do not post about this on bitcoin-development again. It's off topic and you were already asked to stop. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Randolph D. wrote: > Fwd: > > V04 is out: Secure Instant Messenger > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/goldbug/ > > >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Mike Hearn
Hey Wendell, Interesting idea you have there! On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Wendell wrote: > Obviously there are a couple of brain-dead approaches: We could track what > users do in the app, and send the business a bill (with blockchain proof, > of course). > It might be simpler to not think

[Bitcoin-development] Social network integration (brainstorm)

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
Mike Hearn had a rather cool idea about watermarking images with Bitcoin addresses in order to facilitate auto-magically linking social networking profiles: apparently even without API access, reasonably large user images are available publicly via the major services (Facebook, Twitter). Since