On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:02:42 AM Rick Wesson wrote: > Another nifty thing is that it can associate a cert to a domain and a > payment address, if one were to put said address in the DNS :) > > Now I am sure the majority of the bitcoin user-base desires anonymity, > but as a merchant I would like to be knowable and wouldn't mind it if > my identity and those of my transactions were "known" and associated > both with my domains and x.509 cert. In most commercial transactions > (which include many of those that leverage invoices) identity is > important, at least for the merchant.
Anonymity isn't a feature we claim to have, nor a goal of the project for the most part. Using a single Bitcoin address has many problems besides non- anonymity: your customers are denied basic privacy and there is no good way to guarantee the user who says he paid you really did (since transaction ids are public record, anyone can claim they sent it). In short, it is for the most part considered a rule to always use a unique address per transaction or at least per customer. Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
