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Is this only Gmail-to-Gmail? or between existing wallet customers?

If you allow any email, then what about man-in-middle attack as the email might go over SMTP/plain text?



Money doesn't actually fit into email, so that's not really an issue. It's all Google Wallet, so the transfer doesn't happen over email itself.


> Money doesn't actually fit into email

Actually.... bitcoin.


No. The only way to 'send' bitcoins in email is sending the keys for the coins you still own; this (of course) is stupid, since you retain control, so it becomes a race to see which one of the people with the keys transfers them to an address they solely own first.


I suspect it is attached to the email symbolically only, and the money is transferred from google account to google account via some other route.




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