Ethercard.co: Send warm ethers this holiday season! 🎅 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

I love seeing more Ethereum stuff here but this project has some major red flags. Why utilize a smart contract for sending Ethereum as a gift? The only possible reason I can come up with is to charge people a 1% fee. You could accomplish the same "gift card" service by generating an Ethereum wallet in the client's browser (I used ethers.js), prompting them to send Ether to it (MetaMask), and sending the new wallet's private key/phrase to the gift receiver. Here's a very crude demo which took ~30 minutes to code: https://connor.io/ethercard/ https://github.com/ConnorGutman/... I can't think of any advantages for your method. It pollutes the blockchain with extra transactions, requires that the receiver send a transaction to receive their funds (which means you have to already own some Ether to accept a gift), costs the user a 1% fee + more gas, and in a way centralizes the process by relying on a smart contract to just send some Ether to someone. I'm not trying to be rude, I just honestly think there's a lot of issues with your product that people should know about.

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9yr ago

This is awesome, the ability to gift a love ETH will sure make up for all the down moments and losses all year round... Bravo

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5yr ago

Prkit.co

Momentum ?

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9yr ago

A week before https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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9yr ago