From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 20:55:26 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] btc name server
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Chris,

First, an important point: addresses are not wallet ids. They are single-use 
destinations for a single transaction. It isn't intended that anyone should 
remember them, just that they should send them electronically (or with eg, QR-
Codes). Bitcoin does not (yet?) have a person/wallet identity system, but 
there are other mechanisms for this already (eg, PGP).

With regard to your idea, I believe it is satisfied by the new Payment 
Protocol that Gavin has been working on. You will be able to publish a URI for 
a website which people can reuse to pay you more than once.

Luke


On Friday, August 02, 2013 8:40:27 PM Chris Evans wrote:
> wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id nameserver in
> the client software where a person can use a english name to describe a
> wallet public key address?  and the software can use it to look up the
> wallet id.
> 
> wallet ids are hard to remember/recall.
> 
> -chris
> http://tawhakisoft.com/