[alexbosworth]

Would be cool to see bitcoin services use your bitcoin identity instead of email

[frisco]

How would that work? Bitcoin doesn't really provide an identity.

[bnr]

You could create a login-token signed with your bitcoin private key. Wallet software would have to implement that, though.

[alexbosworth]

I've seen it work on a few sites, like AnonymousAds, but yeah it's not a 1:1 mapping

[hxc]

Yup. Bitcoin is meant to be anonymous.

[frisco]

This is a common misconception. Bitcoin isn't anonymous, but there isn't really a way to use your addresses as an "identity" easily, either. Sure you could use a Bitcoin address as the keypair it is to authenticate yourself, but that seems like an odd way to sign up for a service.

[celticninja]

no it is not, its decentralized nature does lend itself to anonymity however.