I hope you are having a great day steemians and the utopian-io community.
This idea surged in my mind a few days ago while i was surfing the steemit website.
When transferring funds from one account to another, due diligence should be well observed as a “little” mistake could lead to loss of massive amounts.
This has become even more important considering the fact that many folks adopting the blockchain and cryptocurrencies are relatively or totally new in the field.
Again, we find accounts created with very similar or look-alike usernames, sometimes to accounts well known for accepting huge amounts of transfers from steemians on daily basis.
For example, we have usernames michael and micheal on steemit. We have poloniex, a well-known cryptocurrencies exchange and we also have ploniex and polonoiex too. We have steemcleaners, steemcleaner and steemcleamer.
Just a little typo while inputing the digits could lead to huge loses as funds transferred to other look-alike accounts erroneously may not be refunded.
There's been quite a lot of updates to the steemit transfer gateway since I joined the platform such as the notification that appears when a user adds a private key to the publicly displayed memo field.
These updates are important to the continuous health of the platform.
However, I'll love to see yet another update to the transfer gateway.
I'll love to see an entry confirmation page added to the gateway as soon as possible.
If a user wants to transfer an asset from the wallet area of his steemit account to another user, what's presently obtainable does not include a confirmation of what has been imputed before finally submitting the transaction.
In essence, my idea is to include a confirmation page to the steemit transfer gateway so that users can get to confirm their inputs before finally including private key to send.
Here's my pictorial explanation.
Assuming diskorvery wants to transfer 10 steem to airhawk-project using the memo “Thanks for always being there”.
Now, from the wallet area, he clicks on the drop down menu on “steem” to locate the “transfer” button which he then clicks.
These actions takes him to the page where he gets to input the account he's transferring to, the amount he's transferring and memo for the transaction.
After including the details above and he hits the “submit” button, the next page should be something similar to what i have below instead of the (include username, password and send) page that usually follows.
Diskorvery can then confirm the credentials inputed before inputing private key and sealing the transaction just the way we have it on some viable online wallets.
This in my opinion should help reduce the frequency and amount of erroneous transfers on the steemit platform thereby engendering a better steem.
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