BlockTrades adds Mappings page to user profiles
As many of our customers already know, once they get a deposit address from our web site, they can re-use that deposit address to make additional trades. For example, if you’re buying Steem with Bitcoin, and always sending the Steem to the same account, you can keep sending Bitcoin to that same address. This has a couple of advantages over getting a new deposit address each time you want to make a trade: 1) you don’t have to worry about making a typo when you specify the Steem account name that will receive the Steem and 2) if you’re sending Bitcoin from an exchange where you are only allowed to send Bitcoin to whitelisted addresses, you don’t have to get a new address whitelisted in order to buy the Steem.
The biggest problem with re-using deposit addresses has been keeping track of what they are and what coins they map between (i.e. what coin has to be used as payment and what coin you receive). To solve this problem, we’ve added a new Mappings table in each registered user’s profile area. The mappings table displays all of the user’s deposit addresses and what coins they map between.
If you want to re-use one of these mappings, just press the QuickTrade button beside the mapping and you will be taken to a pre-filled version of the QuickTrade page. Here you can use our estimator tool to predict the current exchange rate as well as get instructions on how to make the trade.
Another useful feature of the Mappings table is you can assign “nicknames” to mappings. For example, say you frequently sell SBD to buy Bitcoin and send the Bitcoin to one of three exchanges. You can create three mappings, one for each exchange, then assign a nickname to each mapping to make it easy to remember which mapping sends to which exchange.
