Following up on my original proposal, I would like to get some more feedback of the community
to see if this could be realized at some point. Also, any recommendations as to who to contact
to get things rolling?
Thanks,
TS
ts wrote on 8/15/21 11:23 PM:
Entering a BTC address for a
Pieter, thanks for your comments. Here my thoughts:
Pieter Wuille wrote on 8/29/21 9:24 AM:
On Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 5:17 PM, ts via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
Following up on my original proposal, I would like to get some more feedback of
the community
to see if this could be realized
Pieter Wuille wrote on 8/29/21 9:42 AM:
On Thursday, August 19th, 2021 at 1:02 PM, ts via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
In any case --- the last 5 characters of a bech32 string are already a
human-readable 5-digit code, with fairly good properties, why is it not usable
for this case?
Side note
Entering a BTC address for a transaction can pose a risk of error (human or technical). While
there is a checksum integrated in BTC addresses already, this is used only at a technical
level and does not avoid entering a valid but otherwise wrong address. Moreover, it does not
improve the
Good day Christopher,
Thanks for your comment! LifeHash looks indeed quite interesting. I can imagine some examples
where it would be very useful, and I guess it could be used as a visual verification for the
address in a wallet as well.
However, for my proposal (Human readable checksum
Hello Karl,
Yes, I agree in general. But while the visual checksum could be sometimes more interesting and
even useful, I guess that the technically simpler solution might be more likely to be adopted.
And also less prone to error. Just a thought.
Cheers,
TS
Karl wrote on 8/19/21 4:05 PM:
Hello ZmnSCPxj,
ZmnSCPxj wrote on 8/16/21 5:34 AM:
Good morning TS,
Entering a BTC address for a transaction can pose a risk of error (human or
technical). While
there is a checksum integrated in BTC addresses already, this is used only at a
technical
level and does not avoid entering a
a bitcoin
address is a much better user experience after all.
I totally agree with this :)
Cheers,
TS
Best,
slush
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:08 AM ts via bitcoin-dev <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
Pieter, thanks for your comments. Here my thoughts:
