Quote from: thesouljourner on December 21, 2013, 09:07:47 PM

Mostly, I just wanted to suggest that there needs to be a way to make it easier for nontechnical people to use addresses even if they sacrifice a little privacy.

No, it should be much much harder.

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Mostly, I just wanted to hide the ugly complexity of Bitcoin addresses from casual users. I'll take a look at the rest of the BIPs and see if any sound like they'd cover what I'm talking about.

There you go

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Apologies for being one of those noobs that comes in offering changes without properly knowing what I'm talking about. I should have phrased my question more carefully. Something like "is there a way to hide the complexity and ugliness and inherent illegibility of Bitcoin addresses from casual users, such that one can easily give out a single human readable token that can be used for multiple transactions possibly from multiple people?"

No, you're fine. If you had responded by insulting everyone who commented, insisted that you understand Bitcoin perfectly and everyone else doesn't, and that your idea would fix everything if only the damn developers would stop conspiring to shut you out, that would warrant an apology. Wink

(And yet, those people never offer one...)