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Original date posted:2011-12-16
šļø 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.
š 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
--
Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins at gmail.com
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Original date posted:2011-12-16\nšļø 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.\nš Original message:On Friday 16 Dec 2011 19:06:52 Gavin Andresen wrote:\n\n\u003e I think there is also a huge public relations benefit to using a\n\u003e standard like IIBAN instead of inventing our own. Having a Bitcoin\n\u003e Payment Routing Address (or whatever it ends up being called) that\n\u003e looks like the number issues by big financial institutions will give\n\u003e people the warm fuzzies.\n\nI can see the PR advantages, but isn't mapping from one massively long, \nmulti-character, human-opaque number (IBAN) to another (bitcoin address) a \nbit of a waste of time?\n\nSurely the point of all this is to provide at least the possibility of a \nhuman-readable name for a bitcoin-address?\n\nIsn't there a possibility that one day we might want to be able to say \"send \nme those bitcoins you owe me to bitcoin.yahoo.co.uk/andyparkins\"? Or \nsimilar?\n\n\n\nAndy\n-- \nDr Andy Parkins\nandyparkins at gmail.com",
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