Quote from: marcus03 on January 11, 2014, 01:27:43 PM

Quote from: rickyjames on January 11, 2014, 12:48:39 PM

Quote from: marcus03 on January 11, 2014, 07:29:40 AM

Quote from: ricot on January 10, 2014, 11:21:36 PM

I just posted a proposal to fix the account number typo-problem over at the official forums:
https://forums.nxtcrypto.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=524 <- making NXT account numbers awesome!

What do you think about that?

Looks cool. I would like to see some comment from CFB to make sure we don't interfere with some unrevealed feature, but then, I'll add it to Solaris.

Other client developers checking in?

I absolutely cast my vote for using a standardized Reed Solomon NXT account number all beginning with N containing the characters 2-9, A-Z while dropping the use of 0 and O and 1 and I. Adding just an N in front to denote "NXT" is a half measure. I think we should go for bold branding and have the first three characters of every address always be "NXT" so non-users recognize it and eventually become converts. This would bring the total length to exactly 20 characters, which can be either four groups of five separated by dashes, or five groups of four. I personally prefer the latter. It isolates the RS correction data as the last block.

As far as I can see, we need a 64 characters alphabet, so if we drop 0, O, l and 1, we need 4 others. Let's do the further discussion in the OP's thread:

https://forums.nxtcrypto.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=524

nxt system should have a validation function to verify the account is available.

e.g:
acct: 209832084023840384023
MD5 & SHA Checksum: DfwSgeH

so the new account: DfwSgeH-209832084023840384023

Check the MD5 or SHA to verify the account available..