Bitcoin already has code and a protocol for transactions to IP addresses. Why not reuse that for dynamic address lookup? Just a few changes are necessary to enable complete u...@server.com handling: - Extend the protocol so that "reply" messages can be signed by a fixed public key - Extend "checkorder" messages so they can specify an account to send BTC to. Or standardize on how to put the account into the message field. - Enable DNS lookups for IP transactions. The DNS-only proposals could also be used here to avoid having to use the IP transaction protocol sometimes. The public key for signing "reply" messages can be gotten from TXT records. This will be safe with DNSSEC and Namecoin. With plain DNS Bitcoin could take a SSH-like approach and ask the user to verify the public key the first time it is used, remembering it later.
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