Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
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Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#2Silly story, but the implications are interesting.
Next natural disaster with global media coverage, banners and tents with giant, video broadcast-friendly "Donate Here" QR codes will sound like a good idea.
Which means that someone (or more likely, several ones) will quickly make scam replicas and ruin it for everyone.
I remain deeply skeptical of QR codes as a user interface.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#3Silly story, but the implications are interesting. Next natural disaster with global media coverage, banners and tents with giant, video broadcast-friendly "Donate Here" QR codes will sound like a good idea. Which means that someone (or more likely, several ones) will quickly make scam replicas and ruin it for everyone. I remain deeply skeptical of QR codes as a user interface.
They're just another representation of a long string or number... checking or verification can be built on top of it if needed by software.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#4Silly story, but the implications are interesting. Next natural disaster with global media coverage, banners and tents with giant, video broadcast-friendly "Donate Here" QR codes will sound like a good idea. Which means that someone (or more likely, several ones) will quickly make scam replicas and ruin it for everyone. I remain deeply skeptical of QR codes as a user interface.
They're just another representation of a long string or number... checking or verification can be built on top of it if needed by software.
They're worse because they're not human-readable.
It's easier to trick someone into scanning the wrong QR code than it is to trick someone into sending money to the wrong url, email address, phone number, etc.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#5This looks like the Bitcoin version of the GoldenPalace casino buying the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich for $28,000. The majority of the donations were probably designed to attract attention and therefore help market Bitcoin.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're just another representation of a long string or number... checking or verification can be built on top of it if needed by software.
They're worse because they're not human-readable. It's easier to trick someone into scanning the wrong QR code than it is to trick someone into sending money to the wrong url, email address, phone number, etc.
The address or number they produce is human readable. If QR code clients don't show this then it's not a fault of the QR code system itself.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're just another representation of a long string or number... checking or verification can be built on top of it if needed by software.
They're worse because they're not human-readable. It's easier to trick someone into scanning the wrong QR code than it is to trick someone into sending money to the wrong url, email address, phone number, etc.
I wouldn't exactly call bitcoin addresses human-readable either.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#8Bitcoin unfortunately makes this feat very difficult to verify. We will never truly know how much of that $24,000 the poster controlled in the first place.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#9Bitcoin unfortunately makes this feat very difficult to verify. We will never truly know how much of that $24,000 the poster controlled in the first place.
The blockchain has timestamps, so actually you can verify quite easily. Unless, for some reason, the individual is sending bitcoins to himself...