{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1qa67gm2kyrqt7sldhzeppu5hq2ajx80y8f5rs9z6f34pjce03lms4wrrvp","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1qa67gm2kyrqt7sldhzeppu5hq2ajx80y8f5rs9z6f34pjce03lms4wrrvp","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-01-15\n📝 Original message:Love what's happening here, and how quickly things are moving, from initial\nconcept, to first implementation, to first transaction.\n\nBut may I suggest we consider changing the name \"stealth address\" to\nsomething more neutral?\n\nAlready, many people on Reddit and elsewhere are misinterpreting the\npurpose of such addresses, whether for tax evasion, criminal activity, or\nwho knows what. Bitcoin already has plenty of political hurdles based\nsheerly on the technology. We don't need to make life harder for ourselves.\nEven forgetting about politics, the \"stealth\" association just seems to\nimply something secretive going on. Is a Fortune 500 company or worldwide\ncharity going to want to use something called a \"stealth address\"?\n\nI'd propose the alternate term \"routing address\".\n\n- It's a descriptive, neutral term\n- It accurately describes what the address is: it's a way to route payment\nto a recipient, but not the actual final address\n- It can be analogized to a bank's routing number: It is uniquely, publicly\nand persistently tied to the receiving institution. The payor and payee\nknows when payment is made using it, but it's not publicly visible.\n\nThat's the best I've got, but here are some alternate terms in case that\ndoesn't work:\n\n- reusable public address\n- permanent public address\n- permanent address\n- static address\n\nI don't like these quite as much because they're not as clear. Normal\naddresses are all reusable, permanent and static -- they just _shouldn't_\nbe used that way.\n\nBen\n\n\nOn Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Drak \u003cdrak at zikula.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e Sorry this is possibly OT, but someone posted this thread to r/bitcoin and\n\u003e it's gone straight to position 1. People are really enthusiastic about this\n\u003e feature.\n\u003e\n\u003e Drak\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services.\n\u003e Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For\n\u003e Critical Workloads, Development Environments \u0026 Everything In Between.\n\u003e Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today.\n\u003e\n\u003e http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431\u0026iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development\n\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140115/4e4a71a9/attachment.html\u003e"}