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Re: There needs to be a new bitcoin address format...
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malevolent
on 01/02/2013, 08:28:41 UTC
The problem would be: a. how do you prevent an unauthorized third party from making an address that looks like or pretends to be an authentic one.
Anything that is simply a "add more information to an address" type system, a third party could falsify. If your ID was "casascius", someone could be lulled into a false sense of security if they were sending to a scammer's "casacious company".


I think there is a solution: only associate bitcoin addresses with email addresses or GPG/PGP.