How to best structure Internal bitcoin payments within a webapp?

I'm building out a pet project webapp called CollaboTree, a big part of it is allowing users to set bounties for completing/collaborating on little bits of work. I'd like these micro payments to be as cheap/free as possible, and fast (instant?) would be good.

Would it make sense to:

Make a wallet for every user on signup, and make all internal payments go onto the blockchain between real wallets
allow users to load/unload bitcoin onto their accounts to some kind of shared wallet which only the app has access to, then maintain a balance for each user in database letting them transfer among themselves instantly outside of the blockchain, then letting them get their coins back 'live' when needed
Have one big wallet for the entire app, with each user having their own address which is the only one they can spend from or something?

dangerous.beans

Posted 2014-09-13T02:59:24.783

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Answers

The Block.io api supports accounts for similar usage.

With Block.io, you can create wallet addresses for users inside your games, auction sites, stores, etc.

To create a user's wallet on your account, create addresses for them using get_new_address. You should specify a sequence of labels for that user. For instance, if we wish to create a number of addresses for User A, we'd want to call get_new_address with label=userAx{address_number} as many times as wish to create a new address for User A.

Once we have addresses for User A, we can query balances for their addresses, and send coins on the user's behalf.

siliconsys

Posted 2014-09-13T02:59:24.783

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