Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-18 Thread Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev
As the idea got positive feedback, I've written the BIP. The draft is available here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/856 Am 17.10.19 um 15:23 schrieb Marco Falke via bitcoin-dev: > I also like the "bitcoin invoice address" term by Chris. Invoice is a > common term and easily translatable

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-17 Thread Marco Falke via bitcoin-dev
I also like the "bitcoin invoice address" term by Chris. Invoice is a common term and easily translatable into other languages. Marco ___ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-11 Thread Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev
> This may not be the most practical information, but there actually did exist > an almost perfect analogy for Bitcoin addresses from the ancient world: From > wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal) I personally do not like the term bulla, it might be a perfect analogy but I

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-11 Thread Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces via bitcoin-dev
I would propose a term different than all the others mentioned so far. I propose Funding Codes. The word funding can be used as a verb or a noun and this works for the nature of Bitcoin transactions. Funding can be seen as what someone needs to do with the code as well as referring to it as

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-10 Thread Lloyd Fournier via bitcoin-dev
Hi Thread, This may not be the most practical information, but there actually did exist an almost perfect analogy for Bitcoin addresses from the ancient world: From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal) "Transactions for trading needed to be accounted for efficiently, so the clay

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-10 Thread Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev
I've proposed bitcoin invoice for awhile now. See https://twitter.com/kallewoof/status/1165841566105079808 I like bitcoin invoice address into bitcoin address as proposed by Chris. On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:45 AM Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > * Sorry if this mail was sent multiple

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-10 Thread Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev
* Sorry if this mail was sent multiple times, my E-Mail client went crazy * Thanks for all your feedback. I came to the decision to write a BIP for this, even if it might not be implemented by many wallets, a standardization is never wrong and this would be the first step in the correct direction

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-09 Thread Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev
This is an excellent idea and I hope something like this happens. I've had the idea of using an intermediate name to make the transition easier, for example "Bitcoin address" becomes "Bitcoin invoice address" which after 10 years becomes "Bitcoin invoice" (or "Bitcoin invoice"). "Invoice" would

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-06 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
On Saturday 05 October 2019 21:57:48 Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Hello dear mailing list subscribers. > Before I'll explain my idea here, I need to define a term first > > 'address': > When I use the terms address, pubkey, etc., I mean the same: The Base58 > string But a pubkey is not a