As a real use case for my PHP library ( https://galactictalk.org/d/335-interest-check-php-library ) I've started working on a way to send lumens to users of other services. I think this would also be a good candidate for the SBC and wanted to post the idea here. How it would work: Alice wants to send some lumens to someone on twitter, but she doesn't know anything other than their twitter username. In this example, it will be @stellarorg Alice uses a wallet that supports federation and sends lumens to stellarorg*twitter.myservice.com OR Alice goes to the website for my service Alice enters "@stellarorg" in the "send to" textfield The website displays a stellar address and memo so she can send from any wallet When it comes time for @stellarorg to retrieve the lumens, they do it as follows: Go to the website for my service Log in with their twitter username and password via OAuth/social login Can then transfer their balance to their wallet Notes: It's not necessary to create any accounts on my service, everything works through OAuth (aka social login) This would not be a fully-featured wallet service. Instead it's a temporary holding place that makes it easy to transfer lumens. This service could eventually support any token on the Stellar network, not just lumens

A way to send Lumens to anyone on twitter, github, etc.

zcc

As a real use case for my PHP library (https://galactictalk.org/d/335-interest-check-php-library) I've started working on a way to send lumens to users of other services. I think this would also be a good candidate for the SBC and wanted to post the idea here.

How it would work:

Alice wants to send some lumens to someone on twitter, but she doesn't know anything other than their twitter username. In this example, it will be @stellarorg

Alice uses a wallet that supports federation and sends lumens to stellarorg*twitter.myservice.com

Alice goes to the website for my service
Alice enters "@stellarorg" in the "send to" textfield
The website displays a stellar address and memo so she can send from any wallet

When it comes time for @stellarorg to retrieve the lumens, they do it as follows:

Go to the website for my service
Log in with their twitter username and password via OAuth/social login
Can then transfer their balance to their wallet

Notes:

It's not necessary to create any accounts on my service, everything works through OAuth (aka social login)
This would not be a fully-featured wallet service. Instead it's a temporary holding place that makes it easy to transfer lumens.
This service could eventually support any token on the Stellar network, not just lumens

sacarlson

Not a bad idea lets see it in action. however we do have email methods to already do this like sacarlson_2000@yahoo.com*funtraker.site that emails a link to the address if the address doesn't yet exist in the federation server. But if you don't already have the email of who you want to send but do have his github or other Oauth, this would still add another option and maybe even a better one.