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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:48:42 -0800
From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>
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On 11/15/13 4:41 PM, Drak wrote:
> For years, people had a problem with  "email address", instead
> using "email number" but they got there eventually. Most people
> nowadays use "email address" So "payment address" or "bitcoin
> address" make better sense here when qualified as a "<foo> address"
> and not just an "address"
> 
> You could also call it "payment id", but I dont think "invoice id"
> since no-one pays to an invoice id that's just a reference for a
> payment, not the destination.
> 
> People are very familiar with Paypal these days, and are familiar
> with "paypal address" or their "paypal id" so again I think valid
> contenders are "bitcoin address" or "bitcoin id".

No, no no. That's precisely the problem! Bitcoin pubkey-hashes are not
like email address, physical address, or paypal address. These latter
things are fixed pieces of information that stay constant over time.
Bitcoin keys, on the other hand, must be one-use-only. We want to
break this association, not strengthen it.


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