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From: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Pubkey addresses
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:15:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324138546.29801.3.camel@BMThinkPad.lan.bluematt.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGQP0AFg7dMK4Rzm9M1Ur-jeQmAp85nKbE_Ry5sXr+Pw=e3EQg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 12:14 +0100, Jorge Timón wrote:
> Don't know much about QR codes, but I thought they have a length limitation.
> Why jav wants to use not just addresses but firstbits then?
Under no circumstances should the use of firstbits ever be supported.
It doesn't scale, not even close, especially as we (hopefully) move
towards SPV clients.  Also, it provides incentives for people to spam
the chain to get a firstbits address.  Never should that be supported.

Matt




  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-17  6:32 [Bitcoin-development] Pubkey addresses Luke-Jr
2011-12-17 11:14 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-17 16:15   ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2011-12-17 18:20     ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18 12:15       ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-18 14:03         ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-18 14:28           ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-18 14:34             ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-18 15:42         ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-18 19:50           ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-17 13:54 ` Wladimir
2011-12-17 21:52 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-17 23:46   ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-12-18  0:28     ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-18  0:39       ` Luke-Jr

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