rich1.0npub1sgs97fe0n9wehe6zw7drcxdz4cy9yt9pfqjv8gasz5jlk4zezc0quppx3chttps://nostr.ae/npub1sgs97fe0n9wehe6zw7drcxdz4cy9yt9pfqjv8gasz5jlk4zezc0quppx3cnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2015-02-05 📝 Original message:On 02/05/2015 12:50 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > I'm imagining myself walking around broadcasting my photo and MAC > address while hucksters push payment requests to me for approval > > I hate to break it to you, but you broadcast a photo of your face every > time you walk outside ;) > > Bluetooth MAC addresses are random, they aren't useful identifiers. If > someone can see you, a face is a far more uniquely identifying thing > than a MAC. Interesting take on privacy. But the market will of course decide. Would the merchant be broadcasting payment requests in the clear, or would they be encrypted with a public key of the spender? > "Payment spam" might be a problem. I can imagine a wallet requiring that > such requests are signed and then spammers can be blacklisted in the > usual fashion so they can't push things to your phone anymore. Anyway, a > hurdle that can be jumped if/when it becomes an issue. Not sure I'd shoot for a system that's guaranteed to require PKI with blacklisting and spam filtering. e -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 473 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150205/d727f4f8/attachment.sig>