Why does anyone care what an address looks like?
If the user is seeing an address, that's a usability fail right there. It's
common today because AFAIK nobody finished off the URL handling support in
the main client for browser integration. It'd be a much better use of time
to finish off that
All,
I fully agree with Mike Hearn on this. Like email addresses, bank numbers,
phone numbers, IPv4/v6 addresses and such the bitcoin address is just an
opaque identifier for machines to be able to send each other messages.
Base58 was chosen not for human readability but to make it easy to
Base58 was chosen not for human readability but to make it easy to
copy/paste.
It was also chosen for hand-writeability, weirdly enough. That's why it
excludes some confusible characters. But Satoshi didn't really understand
how people would end up using Bitcoin, he originally imagined most
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
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