I'm new to bitcoins & this forum. i'd illustrate why a name-to-address mapping may make sense, i'd like to give three scenario's



are there any services that do this ?

a more secure & de-centralized method that takes in an openid site instead could be


either way, i fail to see why we need long wallet addresses.

infact i'm considering a simple app that maps nickname to wallet address with a REST api to return the result in plaintext/json/xml

thoughts & comments welcome

~B