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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:23:01 +0200
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Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Social network integration (brainstorm)
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Mike Hearn had a rather cool idea about watermarking images with Bitcoin =
addresses in order to facilitate auto-magically linking social =
networking profiles: apparently even without API access, reasonably =
large user images are available publicly via the major services =
(Facebook, Twitter).

Since this process would necessarily be somewhat manual and would of =
course be "undone" anytime the user changed his/her profile image, it is =
probably not a solution for everyone. But it seems that this could be a =
helpful way to at least _begin_ organizing Bitcoin around people and =
organizations in a way that is broadly familiar.

I haven't been able to get this to work myself, but Blockchain.info =
seems to offer sending 'coin via Facebook:
https://blockchain.info/wallet/send-via

There is also the very cute Bitcoins With Friends:
https://bitcoinswithfriends.com/

Most of the other apps that I have seen at one point or another have =
vanished. I recall reading that Facebook was not particularly friendly =
to them, hence the present interest in more subversive (?) ways of =
making those connections.

Again, I am not 100% sure that this is the correct place for it, but I'm =
opening this thread to other such ideas in case anyone else wants to =
discuss it. Our motivation is making Bitcoin easier to use, and we =
suspect that even imperfect social network support will move us closer =
to that goal.

-wendell

grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411

> Re-orienting Bitcoin around people and companies is something we =
wanted to do for a long time. How do you get an address linked to a =
personal profile? Someone was asking me about this last month and I =
suggested watermarking addresses into social network profile pictures. =
The advantage of that approach is every social network supports profile =
pictures and big ones like Facebook and Twitter allow querying of =
somebodies picture without needing any API or user authentication, eg:
>=20
>    https://graph.facebook.com/i.am.the.real.mike/picture?type=3Dlarge
>=20
> So obviously with such a thing you can send to any Facebook user who =
has configured their profile correctly. There's a library that =
implements watermarking that can survive social network recompression, =
but it is (doh) written in Java ;)