[Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

Roy Badami roy at gnomon.org.uk
Wed Jan 15 23:17:34 UTC 2014


How about just calling them 'type S addresses'?

Not sure any other name will in reality convey much more meaning than
that.

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:07:28PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> "Routing address" is pretty good too.  Unsure whether the synergy and
> familiarity with bank routing numbers improves the situation, or
> not...
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Roy Badami <roy at gnomon.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:44:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> "static address" seems like a reasonable attempt at describing intended
> >> use/direction.
> >
> > ...as opposed to an address configured by DHCP?
> >
> > More seriously, I don't think a typical user will understand anything from
> > the phrase "static address".  But it is a neutral name, and it is shorter
> > than "address-of-a-type-for-which-reuse-is-not-deprecated". :-)
> >
> > -roy
> 
> 
> 
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> Jeff Garzik
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