Andy Parkins [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-12-16 🗒️ Summary of this message: Using a ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-12-16
🗒️ Summary of this message: Using a standard like IIBAN for Bitcoin Payment Routing Address can have a huge public relations benefit and give people a sense of familiarity. However, the ultimate goal is to provide human-readable names for Bitcoin addresses.
📝 Original message:On Friday 16 Dec 2011 19:06:52 Gavin Andresen wrote:

> I think there is also a huge public relations benefit to using a
> standard like IIBAN instead of inventing our own. Having a Bitcoin
> Payment Routing Address (or whatever it ends up being called) that
> looks like the number issues by big financial institutions will give
> people the warm fuzzies.

I can see the PR advantages, but isn't mapping from one massively long,
multi-character, human-opaque number (IBAN) to another (bitcoin address) a
bit of a waste of time?

Surely the point of all this is to provide at least the possibility of a
human-readable name for a bitcoin-address?

Isn't there a possibility that one day we might want to be able to say "send
me those bitcoins you owe me to bitcoin.yahoo.co.uk/andyparkins"? Or
similar?



Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins
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