Quote from: wheatrich on July 09, 2014, 06:19:21 PM

Quote from: LaudaM on July 09, 2014, 05:57:15 PM

Quote from: MRKLYE on July 09, 2014, 04:04:13 PM

If you can't use your eyes + copy and paste you probably shouldn't be using money in the first place.

Exactly. Because copy + paste is so hard that we need to completely throw away addresses.
Please. Stop being lazy.
The blog is bad.

OP is correct though, people in general are incapable of copy + paste. The address system is one of the current hinderances to widespread adoption. It absolutely has to be changed before you'll see the public get all on board. (if you had to type in a cc number every time in a store nobody would use that either)

Also you're not going to be copy and pasting buying something in a brick and mortar shop, if we want mainstream we have to get more toward doing that.

phones are nice but people lose and break them all the time so they aren't storing the $ there yet.

Many "in person" merchants that accept bitcoin use QR codes that will help setup a transfer to the merchants address, so even though a BTC address is being used, it is transparent to the customer.

Most wallet services (both software and web wallets) also support using QR codes for both sending and requesting, reducing the need to even copy and paste.