[Bitcoin-development] btc name server

2013-08-02 Thread Chris Evans
wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id nameserver in the client software where a person can use a english name to describe a wallet public key address? and the software can use it to look up the wallet id. wallet ids are hard to remember/recall. -chris

Re: [Bitcoin-development] btc name server

2013-08-02 Thread Luke-Jr
Chris, First, an important point: addresses are not wallet ids. They are single-use destinations for a single transaction. It isn't intended that anyone should remember them, just that they should send them electronically (or with eg, QR- Codes). Bitcoin does not (yet?) have a person/wallet

Re: [Bitcoin-development] btc name server

2013-08-02 Thread Rick Wesson
I'd raised this topic before suggesting to leverage DNS as its kinda useful for mapping names to numbers. Expect no support. -rick On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id nameserver in the client