Quote from: gavinandresen on March 05, 2011, 10:07:37 PM

I suppose if we figure out how to make click-to-pay work for both the "I'm using an online wallet service" and the "I'm using the client" cases, then users won't have to know how to copy&paste addresses and human-type-able addresses won't be critical.

Maybe a little bit off-topic, but I think better usability is essential to bitcoin's success.

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