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		Groxx on July 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Instawallet introduces instant bitcoin payments (z... Erm... that's the public part of a public-key pair. It's as secure as any other modern public-key crypto out there (plus or minus a few digits). Any transactions are signed.

eli on July 31, 2011 [–]

No, in the case the problem is that the URL is essentially the private key!

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