I had an idea about address format.  Maybe something to visually distinguish a NXT address from the many other crypto addresses… it can also "brand" our addresses so clones of NXT would most likely need to change this to look different.

something like:

Nxxxx xxxx X xxxx xxxxT

it might also just make you feel comfortable that you copied/pasted or typed your whole NXT address… you see the beginning, middle, and end.

I just know that I have copied/pasted a lot of various crypto addresses for different currencies such as with Cryptsy and they all look the same and I've wondered if I pasted the an address for the wrong coin.  Different credit cards start with different numbers Visa starts with 4, MasterCard starts with 5.  A lot of ID number for various things always start out the same so you can say look for a number that starts like…

I'm not sure if people think this is cheesy or unnecessarily adds complexity?... But I don't think it is much of a big deal to type a couple extra letters because people will often use QR codes or if they really want convenience at expense error checking they can send to aliases.

Maybe this may even stop someone from accidentally sending NXT to an address that was actually for a different or cloned crypto but still passed the basic NXT error checking.  We definitely need to change address format at some point.  The numerical address with no error check is a nightmare if NXT was used on a large scale.


Thoughts?  NxtChg, I know you were working on address format, what do you think?