On Friday 16 Dec 2011 19:06:52 Gavin Andresen wrote: > I think there is also a huge public relations benefit to using a > standard like IIBAN instead of inventing our own. Having a Bitcoin > Payment Routing Address (or whatever it ends up being called) that > looks like the number issues by big financial institutions will give > people the warm fuzzies.
I can see the PR advantages, but isn't mapping from one massively long, multi-character, human-opaque number (IBAN) to another (bitcoin address) a bit of a waste of time? Surely the point of all this is to provide at least the possibility of a human-readable name for a bitcoin-address? Isn't there a possibility that one day we might want to be able to say "send me those bitcoins you owe me to bitcoin.yahoo.co.uk/andyparkins"? Or similar? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andypark...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
