On Oct 30, 2017 15:21, "shiva sitamraju via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

For example bc1qeklep85ntjz4605drds6aww9u0qr46qzrv5xswd35uhjuj8ahfcqgf6hak in 461e8a4aa0a0e75c06602c505bd7aa06e7116ba5cd98fd6e046e8cbeb00379d6 is 62 bytes !

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While I get the error/checksum capabilities Bech32 brings, any user would prefer a 20 byte address with a checksum over an address that would wrap several lines !!

That's an unfair comparison. You're pasting a P2WSH address which contains a 256-bit hash.

A P2WPKH address (which only contains a 160-bit hash, just like P2PKH and P2SH) in Bech32 is only 42 characters, not 62.

Cheers,

Pieter