From: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>
To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"
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Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:52:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327812740.41242.YahooMailNeo@web121002.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
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?
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-29 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 4:52 Amir Taaki [this message]
2012-01-29 5:10 ` [Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16 Amir Taaki
2012-01-29 5:15 ` Luke-Jr
2012-01-29 5:23 ` Alan Reiner
2012-01-29 8:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-01-29 5:19 ` Gregory Maxwell
[not found] ` <1327835941.47827.YahooMailNeo@web121006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
2012-01-29 11:19 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fw: " Amir Taaki
2012-01-29 14:30 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-01-29 14:40 ` Luke-Jr
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