- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:46:31 +0200
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
On 2015-04-07 02:40, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > I've been sketching out an implementation of a payment processor and wallet system lately > > Turns out decentralized wallets are a really hard problem to solve > > Some thoughts I had: > > 1. A multi user wallet, seems to be roughly the same thing as a payment processor, when in a decentralized environment > > 2. A decentralized payment wallet / payment processor should be able to largely live in the browser > > Note: I'm looking at this from the perspective of crypto currencies to start with. Fiat may require more thought / work. > > Some questions: > > Would these two goals be desirable to the group, because it's what I'm trying to create? > > Are there any technical barriers why this would be impossible using web technology? > > Or is it out of scope for this version? IMO, the #1 problem with decentralization is service discovery. The rest shouldn't be harder than for example PayPal. Anders
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