alexbosworth

This is confused or wrong. They don’t have a large number of devs working on Core. They did propose and code a solution which increased the block size. Saying things are fishy and that open source solutions widely reviewed over years by a broad set of people have some secret easy supposed backdoor, seems pretty wrong to me.

I don't know what the market will do, maybe fall hard, but I can tell you from personal experience it has utility over the alternatives in situations I've come across

Thanks for the 1mbit :) The absolute killer feature for me is multisig with a second party, based on a standard BIP backup seed - so 2 of 3, I hold 2 keys on a paper wallet, the mobile app holds 1 key, the trusted other party holds 1 key, 2 keys are needed to send transactions.

Basically my preference for bitcoin software is like this:

1. If there is a bad update to the software, I feel safe that it doesn't matter too much because there is a secondary signature needed to approve a transfer

2. If the software is discontinued or I want to stop using it, I feel safe it doesn't matter because I can restore from a seed elsewhere

I appreciate safeguards to the device like the touchId etc, however there's a tricky balance there of security vs usability. I think using the touch movement pattern is a great idea for a backup method and touchId can be the primary method.

my email is alexbosworth at gmail dot com

- I'd incorporate touchID, I've used it in iOS and it's easy to add.

- One feature I'm thinking about for my iOS apps is using the Apple Watch as a 2nd factor auth mechanism. I haven't looked into the feasibility of it yet though and probably not many people have smartwatches

- After the user writes down the seed when setting up the wallet, challenge them to verify their written seed. I think this is how Electrum works, try that out

- BIP standard is a good idea for the seed, but try and mention other wallets that the seed can be used in, for reference purposes

- Multisig is definitely the winner here, but I'd go farther, really look into trustedcoin API

I installed it, - my hn nick at gmail

My feedback is

- Hard to trust any app for btc that isn't open source

- Requiring a photo is pretty severe, scale factor is wrong mode in the uiimageview

- The security is pretty crazy, unlock pattern + password - make it easy to get started

- Seed value should require repeating back to the app

- Multisig looks complicated, I'd like it to work with Electrum

- Seed should give me some idea of its standard, can I restore it with another app

- It's missing press states on a lot of stuff

- Would be cool to integrate with trustedcoin api

The gold standard is breadwallet, have to beat that. I like the multisig angle, but it has to be done correctly

Is it open source?

Do you store the user ids?

Did you double tap the home button? It's a feature of iPhone 6

Since credit cards can have chargebacks for a long period of time and Bitcoin cannot represent negative balances, this is a pretty difficult service to provide

I'd like this but it needs a good interface and it needs to be super reliable

I see it as competition to PayPal, I like PayPal vs a credit card b/c of convenience and privacy

The tricky part here is that Coinbase is taking their 1% fee on the buyback (Maybe they should give a special rate here) - but they also recently introduced an interesting feature that allows merchants to pass on PayPal merchant charge savings on to the consumer.

This is early adopter territory, using Bitcoin for this isn't a clear win yet, but Coinbase is doing some smart things to bring mainstream appeal

Most advanced form builder evar but their email input isn't input type email for my iPhone to pick email keyboard :/