(context post by sirius)

You can of course use services like vekja.net or mybitcoin.com on a mobile browser, depositing money there to the extent you trust them. But maybe a mobile wallet would be better in a sense.

What do you imagine the iPhone app doing? Just looking for some ideas on how it should look and what it should do..

I think this idea deserves more recognition.

A phone is much more accessible and widely available than a computer. There are many, many people for whom they only got a phone.

Even some kind of SMS / gateway / key exchange would be something… being able to *send *a payment by sms to a gateway server with an unsupported phone to a supported phone, for example, or to a *trusted *third party who can handle the transaction for us. By rolling passcode perhaps.

That would fantastic, and possibly not too much of a major overhaul needed?

Inspired?

Quote from: sirius-m on June 10, 2010, 01:51:16 PM

You can of course use services like vekja.net or mybitcoin.com on a mobile browser, depositing money there to the extent you trust them.

I think that’s the best option right now.  Like cash, you don’t keep your entire net worth in your pocket, just walking around money for incidental expenses.

They could make a smaller version of the site optimized for mobile.  If there was an app, it could be a front end to one of those, with the main feature being QR-code reader, or maybe there’s already a universal QR-code reading app that web sites can be designed to accept scans from.

If there was an iPhone app that was just a front end for vekja or mybitcoin, not a big involved P2P, would apple approve it and if not, on what basis?  It could always be an Android app instead.  An app is not really necessary though, just a mobile sized website.

A web interface to your own Bitcoin server at home wouldn’t be a solution for everyone.  Most users don’t have a static IP, and it’s too much trouble to set up port forwarding.