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54 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 11h \ parent \ on: Making Bitcoin Speak Human - Spiral Blog bitcoin
I think they are trying to shoot for something where you can give someone one thing (a paynym, an address, a lnurl thing) and it works for all kinds of ways a person wants to pay you.
There is some value to that. I don't mind qr codes though. I'm not sure it is so much of an improvement on just sending qr codes around.
The whole thing they want to "fit" Bitcoin in that old antiquated mindset of fiat, where everything must be "verified" or "human readable" by dumb people that can't even read an analog clock anymore...
Bitcoin it have its own way forward and the world MUST adapt to it not the way around.
Nobody in the right mind will want to memorize a long bitcoin address, and QR codes are not to make it easy to pay, but to HIDE exactly that address from human eye. That human eye can make mistakes and same mistakes can be made with a scor3sby@scoresby.com instead of scoresby@scoresby.com.
Just imagine how many scams will start spoofing those "human readable" addressee like they try to do today with emails. And why some of them have sucess?
Exactly because we've skipped the education of people and we tried to hide these technical things. How many people you see looking into an email header today ? Almost none. Yet they believe any email the receive.
A QR code is just scanned, hardly can be faked.
Also Bitcoin is a push system, that means you need an invoice to be paid, not just sending money to an address... An invoice is created and presented to the payer.
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