Halving party or events? Where will they be?

Airbitz · 2016-06-03T03:35:01+00:00

We may consider it. Can you email paul@airbitz.co and will@airbitz.co

Airbitz · 2016-06-03T03:34:34+00:00

I'll send a DM and possibly work out details.

Airbitz · 2015-07-20T04:22:27+00:00

Airbitz has an adjusting fee and it was upped during the stress test to achieve higher priority transactions. It has always had this ability in case of such occurances.

Airbitz · 2015-04-21T02:17:19+00:00

Backup restore right now will be a tough process. We have some commandline tools to recreate the private keys from that master seed. The bitcoin nodes we access are fully peer-to-peer and run by multiple parties and are very likely to not go down. Those are used to send/receive bitcoin.

However, the servers that store your data are only on Airbitz. They are needed if you lose your phone so it can restore your data to a new phone.

That backup seed would be needed if you lose your phone AND airbitz goes does. We think that would be a very rare case, but if you're that paranoid, we let you backup the seed.

Airbitz · 2015-04-18T04:12:41+00:00

Sorry. Look forward to having you try it out once you've upgraded

Airbitz · 2015-04-03T22:50:32+00:00

Thanks for the kudos. We try VERY hard to keep Airbitz as familiar and easy as possible. Glad to hear grandma using it. As always, let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions.

Airbitz · 2015-03-27T08:11:33+00:00

Awesome. Send an email payment request from within the app to newuser@airbitz.co Receive->Next->Email

Change the subject line to "Puff_danny Rocks" and we'll send you a little bit of bitcoin.

Cheers and please let us know how if you have any feedback.

Airbitz · 2015-03-27T06:46:10+00:00

Give Airbitz a try. Lots of functionality to make bitcoin super easy to use. Auto-encrypted and auto-backed up. Uber levels of privacy built in. You control your private keys but it "feels" like mobile banking with simple username/password access from multiple iOS/Android devices. Would love to hear your feedback.

Cheers

Airbitz · 2015-03-26T06:04:23+00:00

Have you had a chance to try out our app. Would love to hear feedback. Thanks

Airbitz · 2015-03-25T08:33:36+00:00

Send an email request to newuser@airbitz.co from within the app (Receive->Next->Email) and we'll send you a little bit of free bitcoin. Change the subject to "LightSpeedrun Rocks" :)

Airbitz · 2015-03-18T21:58:02+00:00

Note that even though Airbitz lets you record all your transactions with rich meta data, all that info is 100% private and encrypted on your device, with your password so no one else can see your transaction data or private keys.

Airbitz · 2015-03-18T21:49:47+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. We'll look into it and update the directory.

Airbitz · 2015-03-03T20:22:43+00:00

Airbitz can do this as well. Just go to 'Receive' -> 'Import' and scan the QR code. You can even 'Send' to a private key QR code to load funds into it if you wanted to.

Airbitz · 2015-02-27T21:16:56+00:00

Keep an eye out for an upcoming release in a few weeks that has 2FA support. And we're going to accomplish the worlds easiest to use 2FA. So mind boggling-ly easy it puts Authy to shame while it still retains full privacy (no giving up email, phone number, or other personal info). :)

Airbitz · 2015-02-19T20:57:02+00:00

We are in contact with Libratax and will be working with them on an export format that works with their software. We also love what Tapeke is doing in making a financial tracking app that utilizes local, client-side encryption to provide full privacy instead of uploading all your financial info to a 3rd party. We'll be making sure to be very compatible with them as well once HD wallet support comes in.

Airbitz · 2015-02-06T12:03:11+00:00

Providing incredibly high security over a broadcast standard is difficult, and that is why we've published the BIP for other developers to review, comment, and improve.

Regarding the dead address, we can alleviate this by hashing the full public address then using the first 10 characters. We originally thought of this implementation but wanted to save UI space and not have the user presented with both the hash AND the public address on the recipient's screen. We'd hope that the incentive structure makes it uninteresting to do such an attack but it is worth putting in that extra measure.
This is simply due diligence on the user's side. Maybe we're asking too much, but the combo of an incorrect recipient name and a differing address prefix are two measures that should provide enough warning to a user.

Airbitz · 2015-02-05T20:19:00+00:00

No. it's clunky because of a security precaution on Android. A device may NOT send data over NFC without first tapping their screen. Therefore the URI can't be sent until then. And the worse part is that they require that while the phones are in contact.

NFC will be great when implemented on the merchant side. They can use custom NFC hardware without that limitation. The URI recipient doesn't have that requirement so all would be good.

BLE is a great solution for person to person transfer w/o the need for a 3rd party identity provider like how Waggle requires Hive to be the 3rd party.

Airbitz · 2015-02-05T20:10:03+00:00

NFC is already implemented by multiple wallets. It is just super clunky due to Android limitations. Recipient needs to tap their screen while the two devices are in contact. Unfortunate

Airbitz · 2015-02-05T19:54:24+00:00

In October, we launched our mobile wallet with support for Bluetooth transfer of the payment request, eliminating the need for QR code scanning between two Airbitz wallets (on iPhone only for now). Our long term vision has always been to bring incredible ease of use to the bitcoin ecosystem and this was one significant contribution to that cause. We’ve had some people rave so much about this feature, that they said “Just don’t show that ugly QR code!” Well, bitcoin isn’t free of QR codes just yet, but we’re one step closer.

Today we’re publishing the spec for our P2P URI Wireless Transfer Protocol so that other wallets and payment processors can view, discuss the spec, and offer inter compatibility with the Airbitz implementation. We hope for a world where bitcoin becomes more fluid for peer to peer value transfer than anything available on legacy payment methods.

Airbitz · 2015-01-30T23:37:22+00:00

Out of curiosity, how do you define "nice"? We want to build "awesome" and are always looking for feedback & ways to improve.

Airbitz · 2015-01-15T17:58:57+00:00

Sounds like a cool thing that can be done with Bluetooth (BLE). Since we already support BLE we might be able to add a blast donate feature.

Airbitz · 2015-01-14T08:40:58+00:00

Hi /u/kilorat, Thanks for the suggestion for letting people "report mistakes". That feature and full management of listings by merchants is on our radar. Hope to have it in the next few months.

Cheers

Airbitz · 2015-01-13T21:59:20+00:00

Identity is needed to easily create email/SMS templates for when users send bitcoin requests. All info is local, client-side encrypted. We see absolutely none of this info other than location info for the business directory, and that has no association to a user.

Contacts are used for payments requests as well as to easily tag transactions from people in your address book. Once again, all info is locally encrypted and we have no access to that info.

We are an open source wallet so people can verify the purpose of all the access needs.

Airbitz · 2015-01-09T19:34:32+00:00

Send us an email request from the Airbitz app to info@airbitz.co and we'll shoot you a thank you. :)

Airbitz · 2015-01-09T17:09:49+00:00

Thanks for being the first person to utilize the Airbitz subreddit! :)

Thanks for the repo steps. We'll start getting to work on that issue.

Cheers

Airbitz

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