The Robots Attached to Our Accounts

[sschechter]

<------ Personally I liked my mutant...perhaps because I looked like a stoned teenage mutant ninja turtle. The robots are good too.

[xeroc]

when I crawl the forum I usually directly identify Bytemasters posts by his red slim robot ... only issue I have .. puppies robot looks a little similar on first sight .. :-)

[yellowecho]

How do you know when its the wrong robot?  You have to remember which is the right one?  Is there something that says "Wrong robot meaning wrong password or typo, or something?

It's like facial recognition.  I instantly recognize my robot.

[eagleeye]

What do we mean in terms of robots attached to our accounts?

Each account name has a deterministically generated image of a robot displayed in the wallet for visual confirmation to reduce typos when sending funds to an account.

How does that reduce typos?  Sounds cool though.

People are better at recognizing familiar images quickly than at noticing a misplaced character in a line of text.  If you've worked with the account before, and have thus seen its robot before, then when you mistype the name and see the wrong robot you'll hopefully catch the difference before you click send and give your money to a stranger.

How do you know when its the wrong robot?  You have to remember which is the right one?  Is there something that says "Wrong robot meaning wrong password or typo, or something?

[Troglodactyl]

What do we mean in terms of robots attached to our accounts?

Each account name has a deterministically generated image of a robot displayed in the wallet for visual confirmation to reduce typos when sending funds to an account.

How does that reduce typos?  Sounds cool though.

People are better at recognizing familiar images quickly than at noticing a misplaced character in a line of text.  If you've worked with the account before, and have thus seen its robot before, then when you mistype the name and see the wrong robot you'll hopefully catch the difference before you click send and give your money to a stranger.

[eagleeye]

What do we mean in terms of robots attached to our accounts?

Each account name has a deterministically generated image of a robot displayed in the wallet for visual confirmation to reduce typos when sending funds to an account.

How does that reduce typos?  Sounds cool though.

[Troglodactyl]

What do we mean in terms of robots attached to our accounts?

Each account name has a deterministically generated image of a robot displayed in the wallet for visual confirmation to reduce typos when sending funds to an account.

[eagleeye]

What do we mean in terms of robots attached to our accounts?

[MktDirector]

 +5%

[gamey]

If people were able to create their own, they would be pointless as a security measure.

[yellowecho]

In future versions of BTSX I'd like to see the ability to create your own robot :)

I actually like that each one is unique based on your user name and you can't create your own.. makes each one more special  8)

[bluebit]

In future versions of BTSX I'd like to see the ability to create your own robot :)

[liondani]

the robots right now like me too,  the monsters before was ugly....

[biophil]

Sounds like a job for someone with a 3d printer!

[xeroc]

The algorithm is from robohash.org ... there should be ALOT of them