It's actually very possible and we'd love to see it as well. Steemit can incorporate the Airbitz Javascript SDK onto the website, and users could "login" using the Airbitz mobile app. This would allow Airbitz accounts to also contain Steemit keys. The same architecture that secures bitcoin in the Airbitz wallet can also secure your Steemit keys. Complete with PIN login, password recovery, One-Touch 2FA, etc.
Think of it as SingleSignOn for blockchain apps but unlike signing in with Google/FB, with Airbitz it's fully private, zero-knowledge client-side encrypted.
You should be seeing some cool announcements about this in the coming month.
Can I upvote this a million times? Wow, Paul, really thanks for responding and working on such an implementation. AirBitz is the absolute best mobile wallet out there, and I wouldn't recommend anything else to my friends. I know a lot of them will have some crypto for the first time in their lives thanks to Steemit. This gives me a lot of hope for their ability to easily and safely interact with it when it leaves the site. Thanks, again!
Haha. Thanks for the kudos. We'd love to open up a chat with @dan and see if they're open to the integration. I think it will make Steemit a bit less intimidating for end users and eliminate the scary long password people are required to save. Airbitz also supports a unique innovation in the crypto space, recoverable passwords that are still zero-knowledge. The integration can go a bit deeper in the future into actually using the funds directly from within our mobile wallet. Dan, if you're listening, let's chat.
We are open to learn more.
Paging @dan and @ned :)
Oh whoa, very cool! That would be great to be able to have that option to incorporate Airbitz and Steemit together :)
While you are at it, I would like to see Dash in the Airbitz wallet! :-)
What's dash all about, when I was researching it, it didn't look too special but I was looking at a bunch of them. can you give me a quick scope?
It's like Bitcoin with a proof-of-stake governance structure built on top, periodic budget as well as some privacy features (which are often argued over how safe they are, particularly by users from Monero who take a different approach to the same problem). Transactions are also very fast. Much of what Steem does seems like it could have been inspired by Dash, but right now I'm much more impressed by Steem.
👍nice post and sharing @paullinator