Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

[Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>]

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On 11/15/13 5:19 PM, Drak wrote:
> Maybe, but again from the user's perspective they pay someone, and
> they receive money - just like you do with paypal using an email
> address. The technical bits in the middle dont matter to the user
> and trying to crap stuff in to be technically correct is just
> confusing to them.
> 
> The UI needs to be about the user and fit with his experience of
> the world.

It's not about being technically correct. It is about protecting the
user from grave breaches of privacy. It is for their own benefit that
they should not be reusing addresses, and if they understood why they
wouldn't.

Unfortunately calling it a "bitcoin address" and including an "address
book" in the reference client has had the effect of making people
think that these objects are like paypal address, or email addresses,
but they are not and they should not be treated the same.

Mark

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