Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-11-14 📝 Original message:On Thursday, November 14, ...
📅 Original date posted:2013-11-14
📝 Original message:On Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:11:26 PM Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> On 11/14/13 3:01 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > I think we all know the problems with the term "address". People
> > naturally compare it to postal addresses, email addresses, etc,
> > which operate fundamentally different. I suggest that we switch to
> > using "invoice id" to refer to what is now known as addresses, as
> > that seems to get the more natural understanding to people. On the
> > other hand, with the advent of the payment protocol, perhaps
> > address/invoice id use will die out soon?
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> "key id" (thanks sipa).
To be clear, I wasn't suggesting renaming scriptPubKey, which sipa was talking
about with "key id"; just the destination-for-transaction presented to
end-users.
📝 Original message:On Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:11:26 PM Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> On 11/14/13 3:01 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > I think we all know the problems with the term "address". People
> > naturally compare it to postal addresses, email addresses, etc,
> > which operate fundamentally different. I suggest that we switch to
> > using "invoice id" to refer to what is now known as addresses, as
> > that seems to get the more natural understanding to people. On the
> > other hand, with the advent of the payment protocol, perhaps
> > address/invoice id use will die out soon?
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> "key id" (thanks sipa).
To be clear, I wasn't suggesting renaming scriptPubKey, which sipa was talking
about with "key id"; just the destination-for-transaction presented to
end-users.