Amir Taaki [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2012-01-29 📝 Original message:2 compressed pubkeys ----- ...

📅 Original date posted:2012-01-29
📝 Original message:2 compressed pubkeys


----- Original Message -----
From: Amir Taaki <zgenjix at yahoo.com>
To: "bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc:
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 4:52 AM
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16

Gavin said:
"Part of the controversy is whether really long bitcoin addresses would work-- would it be OK if the new bitcoin addresses were really long and looked something like this:  57HrrfEw6ZgRS58dygiHhfN7vVhaPaBE7HrrfEw6ZgRS58dygiHhfN7vVhaPaBiTE7vVhaPaBE7Hr
(or possibly even longer)

I've argued no: past 70 or so characters it becomes a lot harder to copy and paste, a lot harder to scan an address with your eyes to see if you're paying who you think you're paying, harder to create a readable QR code, harder to upgrade website or database code that deals with bitcoin addresses, etc. There is rough consensus that very-long addresses are not workable."

How could you have a 70 byte long address without a P2SH scheme? Is this a mistake?

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