Thanks for creating the maintenance account, it would have been impossible to do all that without it. I’m really always going to need it. OK, I changed the password to a 20 character random password.
That’s a good domain. People rarely type domain names anymore, they use autocomplete or click links on search engines.
I need to make a way for you to programmatically get new generated bitcoin addresses. Either that or you could have them send to your IP address, but then you have to rely on them to put the order number in the comment.
When generating the new address, there can be an option to add an entry to the address book associated with the address, so the received transaction will be labelled. I kinda hid the labels after early users found them confusing, but it would be very helpful for this application. You have to widen up the comment column to see them.
Are you going to manually review and enter orders, at least to begin with? I sure would.
I’m thinking I should move the UI in the direction of having the user ask for their bitcoin address when they want one. “give me a bitcoin to receive a payment with”. I suppose next to the send button, there would by a receive button, you press it and it says “here’s a new address to use, here’s the button to copy it to the clipboard, do you want to label it?” and maybe some explanation about why you shouldn’t reuse addresses.
Or maybe just a “New Address” button next to the address box that you should hit each time to change it.
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
I have registered the domain name bitcoinexchange.com and will start coding the service sometime soon as a nice leisure activity. I’m envisioning a simple Google-like interface with no registration and only two texts fields on the front page, where you insert the amount of money you wish to trade, and either your PayPal address to buy dollars or bitcoin address to buy bitcoins. On the next page you’ll get a new bitcoin address for sending the coins or a check code for the PayPal transaction text.
PayPal is good for the beginning - it’s simple and has no startup costs, but later on I might accept credit cards also.
Do you still need the maintenance account? It’s ok if you do, but change the password to something else.
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.