From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Drak <drak@zikula•org>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:15:40 +0100 [thread overview]
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I must say, this shed is mighty fine looking. It'd be a great place to
store our bikes. But, what colour should we paint it?
How about we split the difference and go with "privacy address"? As Peter
notes, that's what people actually like and want. The problem with stealth
is it's got strong connotations with American military hardware and perhaps
thieves sneaking around in the night:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=stealth
But everyone loves privacy.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Drak <drak@zikula•org> wrote:
> Peter I agree with you about "reusable addresses", but aren't we also
> trying to get away from the word "address" entirely? How about calling it
> a "payment key" or "reusable payment key" instead? using "stealth" is just
> asking for bad press imo.
>
>
> On 16 January 2014 21:28, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 04:05:27PM -0800, Jeremy Spilman wrote:
>> > Might I propose "reusable address".
>> >
>> > I think that describes it best to any non-programmer, and even more
>> > so encourages wallets to present options as 'one time use' vs
>> > 'reusable'.
>> >
>> > It definitely packs a marketing punch which could help drive
>> > adoption. The feature is only useful if/when broadly adopted.
>>
>> I'm very against the name "reusable addresses" and strongly belive we
>> should stick with the name stealth addresses.
>>
>> You gotta look at it from the perspective of a user; lets take standard
>> pay-to-pubkey-hash addresses: I can tell my wallet to pay one as many
>> times as I want and everything works just great. I also can enter the
>> address on blockchain.info's search box, and every transaction related
>> to the address, and the balance of it, pops up immediately.
>>
>> What is that telling me? A: Addresses starting with "1" are reusable. B:
>> Transactions associated with them appear to be public knowledge.
>>
>> Now I upgrade my wallet software and it says I now have a "reusable"
>> address. My reaction is "Huh? Normal addresses are reusable, what's
>> special about this weird reusable address thing that my buddy Bob's
>> wallet software couldn't pay." I might even try to enter in a "reusable"
>> address in blockchain.info, which won't work, and I'll just figure
>> "must be some new unsupported thing" and move on with my life.
>>
>> On the other hand, suppose my wallet says I now have "stealth address"
>> support. I'm going to think "Huh, stealth? I guess that means privacy
>> right? I like privacy." If I try searching for a stealth address on
>> blockchain.info, when it doesn't work I might think twig on "Oh right!
>> It said stealth addresses are private, so maybe the transactions are
>> hidden?" I might also think "Maybe this is like stealth/incognito mode
>> in my browser? So like, there's no history being kept for others to
>> see?" Regardless, I'm going to be thinking "well I hear scary stuff
>> about Bitcoin privacy, and this stealth thing sounds like it's gonna
>> help, so I should learn more about that"
>>
>> Finally keep in mind that stealth addresses have had a tonne of very
>> fast, and very wide reaching PR. The name is in the public conciousness
>> already, and trying to change it now just because of vague bad
>> associations is going to throw away the momentum of that good PR and
>> slow down adoption. Last night I was at the Toronto Bitcoin Meetup and I
>> based on conversations there with people there, technical and
>> non-technical, almost everyone had heard about them and almost everyone
>> seemed to understand the basic idea of why they were a good thing. That
>> just wouldn't have happened with a name that tried to hide what stealth
>> addresses were for, and by changing the name now we risk people not
>> making the connection when wallet software gets upgraded to support
>> them.
>>
>> --
>> 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-17 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-06 12:03 Peter Todd
2014-01-08 10:20 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-10 10:20 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-10 11:28 ` Drak
2014-01-10 12:00 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-12 10:33 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-12 12:51 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-12 18:20 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-12 18:26 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-13 9:13 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-14 14:15 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-14 17:54 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-01-12 21:18 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-01-13 9:52 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-13 10:39 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-13 13:37 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-13 15:58 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-13 20:11 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-14 22:53 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-15 0:19 ` Drak
2014-01-15 20:22 ` Ben Davenport
2014-01-15 20:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-15 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-01-15 22:38 ` [Bitcoin-development] Static addresses on chains encouraging address *RE* use Troy Benjegerdes
2014-01-15 23:01 ` [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses Mike Hearn
2014-01-15 23:04 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-15 23:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-01-15 23:17 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-15 23:19 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-15 23:09 ` [Bitcoin-development] unlinakble static address? & spv-privacy (Re: Stealth Addresses) Adam Back
2014-01-16 1:02 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-16 1:32 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-18 17:44 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-01-18 20:25 ` Christophe Biocca
2014-01-20 11:11 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-21 4:00 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-24 9:17 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-16 11:42 ` Adam Back
2014-01-16 18:19 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-01-16 0:05 ` [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-16 0:10 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-16 0:24 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-01-16 0:44 ` Eric Martindale
2014-01-16 6:26 ` Gary Rowe
2014-01-16 9:48 ` Wladimir
2014-01-16 1:16 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-01-16 10:14 ` Drak
2014-01-16 10:19 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-16 11:12 ` [Bitcoin-development] reusable address privacy problems & fuzzy bait limitations (Re: Stealth Addresses) Adam Back
2014-01-16 21:28 ` [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses Peter Todd
2014-01-17 2:30 ` Johnathan Corgan
2014-01-17 3:13 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-17 7:49 ` Drak
2014-01-17 9:15 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-01-17 9:19 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-01-17 9:23 ` Natanael
2014-01-17 9:59 ` Drak
2014-01-17 20:16 ` Cameron Garnham
2014-01-17 14:46 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-17 19:21 ` Ben Davenport
2014-01-18 4:55 ` Alan Reiner
2014-01-18 5:09 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-18 23:12 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-18 23:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-20 11:08 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-13 19:53 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-13 19:57 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-13 20:01 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-13 19:40 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-13 19:44 ` Drak
2014-01-13 19:59 ` Alan Reiner
2014-01-13 20:10 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-13 20:15 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-13 22:02 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-14 14:19 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-14 19:12 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-14 20:48 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-14 21:51 ` Adam Back
2014-01-14 22:34 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-13 20:14 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-13 20:41 ` Alan Reiner
2014-01-13 20:47 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-01-13 21:02 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-13 21:15 ` Alan Reiner
2014-01-13 21:27 ` Peter Todd
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2014-01-14 12:10 ` Peter Todd
2014-03-06 12:23 ` Dan Carter
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2014-01-17 12:16 ` joseph
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