Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-01-16 📝 Original message:I think we have a winner ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-01-16
📝 Original message:I think we have a winner in "reusable address". Yes an existing address can
be reused and will superficially appear to work, it just won't work well.
Calling them reusable addresses helps reinforce the idea in peoples mind
that the other kind shouldn't be reused.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Drak <drak at zikula.org> wrote:

> On 16 January 2014 00:05, Jeremy Spilman <jeremy at taplink.co> wrote:
>
>> Might I propose "reusable address".
>>
>> I think that describes it best to any non-programmer, and even more so
>> encourages wallets to present options as 'one time use' vs 'reusable'.
>>
>
> The problem is all addresses are reusable and to an average user,
> addresses are already reusable so there is little to distinguish the
> address format.
> It might be better to call it a "public address" in common terminology.
>
> Drak
>
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