Quote from: Thies1965 on January 28, 2014, 09:08:56 PM

I would like to throw in another aspect which might be important for broader acceptance.
We try to spread NEM to a much broader base of user types.

We have all senior users in respect to crypto currencies on focus but also we would like to draw in NEWBIEs to crypto.

In long discussions, I have with friends and also with private equity consultants, the most NEWBIEs fear (beside loosing money, sure..) is to tackle with technical issues they are not capable to understand (or willing) nor to solve. So NEM has to provide an understandable and easy way for those NEWBIEs. Cryptic long numbers do not help them to understand whether they have a BITCOIN; NXT or whatever wallet address.

IMHO, the public address for NEM has to reflect some clear indicators that we do have a NEM account here.

I agree. ricot's proposal for NXT may include a "NXT" prefix for the encoded addresses. We could do something similar as a standard suggestion for how folks could display their addresses. (Maybe in practice, folks will see it as redundant and just omit it. But we should start things off clear for everyone and leave that choice up to them.)

Quote from: Jaguar0625 on January 28, 2014, 11:11:40 PM

Quote from: Zahlen on January 28, 2014, 02:06:06 PM

Quote from: Jaguar0625 on January 28, 2014, 03:56:14 AM

- I will also change the account numbers to be more bitcoin-like

Will you be using the proposed Reed-Solomon encoding ricot and NxtChg are working on for Nxt?

I'm thinking a different format would be better, so that NEM addresses can't (in general) be interpreted as NXT addresses by clients and vice-versa. There are simpler encoding schemes (linear codes) which can also do character typo detection and correction (but, unlike Reed-Solomon, not for character omission), and which don't require field algebra. They can be easily implemented from scratch without using 3rd party libraries.

I can expand on this if there's interest.

I wasn't planning on using Reed-Solomon encoding, but I'd be interested in hearing you expand on your suggestion.

I brought our conversation over to nxtcrypto: https://forums.nxtcrypto.org/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=694&p=3245