Why does anyone care what an address looks like?<br><br>If the user is seeing an address, that&#39;s a usability fail right there. It&#39;s common today because AFAIK nobody finished off the  URL handling support in the main client for browser integration. It&#39;d be a much better use of time to finish off that integration and make it easy for people to create links containing a bitcoin: URL (like with copy/paste of text/html content).