Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol)

2014-03-08 Thread Joel Kaartinen
If both parties insist on seeing a hash of the other party's public key before they'll show their own public key, they can be sure that the public key is not chosen based on the public key they themselves presented. Although, I have to wonder, why not just use multisig? - Joel On 08.03.2014 10:5

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Instant / contactless payments

2014-03-07 Thread Joel Kaartinen
I think a reputation network is more complicated than is needed for this. This can be solved by the market. What is needed is a simple method for each individual user to mark certain merchant as trusted. For example, if your device gets an untrusted payment request, it'll make a small sound, light