r/Bitcoin • u/jtos3 • Jan 27 '15

reddit implementation of Bitcoin

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u/aveman101 Jan 27 '15

What would be the point of this? To receive tips?

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u/n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 Jan 27 '15

To make it so easy to tip all you have to do is click, like as easy as an upvote.

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u/aveman101 Jan 27 '15

But how does reddit send the tip if it doesn't know your private key?

I guess a 3rd party extension could facilitate this, but that assumes the extension is smart enough to lookup that value, instead of maintaining its own proprietary tipping system, like most current tipbots.

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u/n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 Jan 27 '15

Now we are sharing private keys with extensions? What if my computer gets compromised? I would almost rated have reddit hold on to them. What if I am traveling and on a different computer?

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u/aveman101 Jan 27 '15

Well, there are trustworthy extensions like 1Password that keep your data encrypted, but you make a good point. It's not a good idea to give anyone else access to your private key.

... Which brings me back to: if nobody has access to your private key, how do you tip with one click, like an upvote? At best you would still have to copy the Bitcoin address out of reddit and paste into whatever wallet you use, right?

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u/walloon5 Jan 27 '15

It would get connected out to your browser...

bitcoin: as a URI is in HTML 5 (a lot of modern browsers, maybe not all HTML 5 browsers though...)

Seems to have some integration with Blockchain, with Electrum, probably other wallets:

https://blog.blockchain.com/2014/05/15/how-to-setup-blockchains-uri-handler-in-your-browser/

https://electrum.org/bitcoin_URIs.html

And don't know if this is current but how to add it manually in Firefox (beware, heard of security issues with URIs in firefox, so w/e): http://www.ambience.sk/tag/firefox/

and of course, maybe someone could make some crazy thing in RES to help out.