It seems base58 is actually quite terrible for producing nice human-recognizable
addresses, even though base58 is specially intended for human usage. We'll just
have to deal with it, or completely overhaul it and move to a saner encoding.
Luke's proposal is somewhat more drastic than my original
On Monday, December 12, 2011 3:56:01 PM Pieter Wuille wrote:
It seems base58 is actually quite terrible for producing nice
human-recognizable addresses, even though base58 is specially intended for
human usage. We'll just have to deal with it, or completely overhaul it
and move to a saner
I wrote this pre-draft:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0015
It's merely a starter for discussions.
Aliases are a way to lookup bitcoin addresses so I can type gen...@genjix.net
instead of 1jkddsjdskjwnk2j3kj232kjdkj
FirstBits looks nice at glance, but is bound to create a gold-rush to grab
every nice-looking FirstBits address.
HTTPS is only as secure as the (centralized) CAs, thus not really any better
than TXT records.
I don't think an address of some form is avoidable.
I don't think Amir wants to put it into the protocol, but I still
don't like much the proposal if it has to rely on servers.
As an aside, even if firstbits it's not useful enough for the human
memory, it is still useful for QR-codes like in the case of green
addresses's POS instant payments.
On Monday, December 12, 2011 6:37:56 PM Jorge Timón wrote:
Would it be too strange to use namecoin?
This has the same problem as FirstBits, except .bit domains are dirt cheap,
whereas vanitygen at least slows down grabbing all the common words...
Are there any PGP key servers that support EC key pairs? OpenPGP Spec
RFC2440 defines key types for EC, just not sure if they were ever
implemented on the keyserver side. Could even have a similar 'web of
trust' using private keys to sign people's identities similar to PGP.
Will
On 12 December
I'm confused about the problem we're trying to solve.
I was in brmlab and wanted to pay 1 BTC for a Club Mate. They had on the wall a
picture of their QR code and a bitcoin address. I don't own a mobile phone so
the QR code is
useless. Then I remembered FirstBits, went to my terminal and
I was in brmlab and wanted to pay 1 BTC for a Club Mate. They had on the wall
a picture of their QR code and a bitcoin address. I don't own a mobile phone
so the QR code is
useless. Then I remembered FirstBits, went to my terminal and typed
1brmlab. I got their bitcoin address from the
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