Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: v01dp on July 09, 2012, 02:44 am
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Please create an API, it would be really useful. For example if you had an api, someone(like me) could create an mobile app that bundled tor + bitcoin into a one stop shop for silk road. Which would be totally sick! :D Ideal you would use Oauth, but for starters just create an API to retrieve the public listing, vendor info, ect. Just this alone would allow for some great possibilities.
Peace,
v01dp
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SR should not be something easily accessed.... You don't want somebody who gets their hands on your phone to easily see you are on SR or dealing with bitcoins.
Yes an API might enable certain things to be done easier... but it would also expose SR to a degree... and since SR needs to be accessed through TOR, then I'm not sure if API would even work.
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no i disagree, everyone should have easy access and everyone should have the freedom to buy and sell what they please. Its not like your going to give the feds more access. I'm sure they already monitor everything that is posted, it would only open it to more people how are not as tech savvy or who don't have the time to setup tor. It wouldn't expose SR in the sense of security since it is behind tor. Actually more traffic could have the effect of adding more security in itself since it would be harder to to do timing correlation on the server. As for having an app on your phone, it would have to be locked in an encrypted layer, so that app would be invisible to anyone without the pass-phrase. You can already access SR on a phone, using orbot, but its clumsy.
EDIT: and yes an API is just uses HTTP request methods, the same thing your brower uses when it loads the web page. The only difference is the API would return JSON (preferable)
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There shouldn't be an API.
Having a 'Silk Road' app on your phone is just incriminating and it solves no purpose.
Surely nothing on Silk Road is THAT important that you can't just wait till you get home.
It's a nice idea, but it's unrealistic.