rich1.0npub1rkatdke2237uf5zw6pctfdgz8jvsrm6vrms0hrdcv6f22rv7f78qt3nvhthttps://nostr.ae/npub1rkatdke2237uf5zw6pctfdgz8jvsrm6vrms0hrdcv6f22rv7f78qt3nvhtnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2011-12-13 🗒️ Summary of this message: Person pays for Club Mate using Bitcoin without a mobile phone by using FirstBits to obtain the Bitcoin address from the website. 📝 Original message:> I was in brmlab and wanted to pay 1 BTC for a Club Mate. They had on the wall a picture of their QR code and a bitcoin address. I don't own a mobile phone so the QR code is > useless. Then I remembered FirstBits, went to my terminal and typed > 1brmlab. I got their bitcoin address from the website and copied that, > then opened my terminal and pasted that in to send 1 BTC. ok, imagine if firstbits didn't exist. instead of going to firstbits, you would have gone to your terminal, opened up brmlabs website, and copied the address from there? there may be some arguments for name-> address translation, but i'm sorry to say, that your example is not one of them. if anything, it seems to suggest that firstbits is completely useless, since it saves approximately zero effort.