If you can't use your eyes + copy and paste you probably shouldn't be using money in the first place.

agree, leave it alone. dont fix whats not broken. There is a nice service opportunity for the slower types to use a service that manages that for them.

I couldn't agree more. The sooner we figure out how to standardize the username to bitcoin address decentralized DNS type service, the better.

My concern with the idea at the moment is that when I copy-paste the address or QR scan it, I can see that it's the same string after a quick glance. Since transactions are irreversible, I like that I can check it really is going where I want it to. Any DNS type service would have to be extremely secure for me to risk using it. If you get a DNS screw up you're on the wrong website or get an error code - no big deal - but if you get a bitcoinDNS screwup, you just sent your money to some random person or into a bottomless pit.

DNS is so easily hacked, but there must be a way to make this idea work. I reckon as soon as someone nails it, the price will do it's next to-the-moon spike.

- Darren

Maybe find a way to link your bitcoin address to a thumbprint or use facial recognition, generate a private key from your facial features

How does it work? They generate a bitcoin address for you
and then what? Why would I send funds to that adr when
I'm not the only one controlling the private key?

Edit on self: overlooked the 'change address' button.

Exactly. Because copy + paste is so hard that we need to completely throw away addresses.
Please. Stop being lazy.
The blog is bad.

This is why I like to use QR codes as an easy way to get people started. That, and teaching people how to copy and paste addresses if they don't already know that CTRL + C tells the computer to copy a selection and CTRL + V tells the computer to paste it.

I agree that bitcoin addresses are too long to remember or type, but I don't think they need to go. QRCode is doing a good job for mobile devices and we can use email or instant messaging for desktop. I actually have an email address which auto-replies my bitcoin address to anyone who sends an email there.

OP is correct though, people in general are incapable of copy + paste.  The address system is one of the current hinderances to widespread adoption.  It absolutely has to be changed before you'll see the public get all on board.  (if you had to type in a cc number every time in a store nobody would use that either)

Also you're not going to be copy and pasting buying something in a brick and mortar shop, if we want mainstream we have to get more toward doing that.

phones are nice but people lose and break them all the time so they aren't storing the $ there yet.