How often is incognito mode used?  I would say 95% of users never touch it.  How many people stop using credit cards after the account details are hacked?

Do you really think people view being able to see chained transactions as a tangible threat?  Most people won't.  As Bitcoin becomes more mainstream, fewer percentages of people will care as well, EVEN IF bad things happen, which constantly happens.

I'm not denying that it is important, but most people will not take the steps to protect it, and even actively take steps to give it up if it gives them a small benefit.  AT&T is offering high speed internet if they can spy on your data, how many people do you think will do anything extra to hide their privacy?  It sounds like this is intended to be a mainstream and behind-the-scenes implementation, in which case, it simply becomes your address.

If this were the case, Edward Snowden wouldn't be hiding in Russia, no one would be using Facebook, and Tor would be standard.  For the vast majority, privacy is simply not valued by most people when it comes down to actually put in any effort.  The Bitcoin community in general is going to have a selection bias towards those who care more than the average person.

I'm not pleased with any of the alternative names either, and as long as it is transparent to the user, all is well with me!

There still needs to be a name, though, even if it is the default.  Users do know of "web address" to visit their webpage even if they don't know the magic of how it works underneath.  Even something as bland as Payment Identifier could work for this purpose.  Stealth address would be one specific type of such an identifier that could be used for more technical people who want to understand the guts.

Look at how much damage has to be undone because of a poorly named "Bitcoin Address".  Names are far more than bikeshedding and can lead people to make very incorrect assumptions and lead people astray.  My concern is mostly about mainstreaming the Stealth Address feature while not putting it in some pigeonhole of "oooh scary advanced secret stuff only bad people use".  People that care about privacy are not going to be the target here.  It's the people who say "so what" to the privacy claim.  Stealth buys them nothing.  But make it work without them knowing and you could call it ice cream dump truck and it's just as good.

My concern with the name Stealth Address is that it will end up being a niche feature that most people will not use.  Peter's "Ohh, privacy is good!" argument makes sense among his peers, but will fall flat on most common users.  Most people "Have nothing to hide" and aren't threatened by privacy, even with all the leaks and damage done.  This should be viewed as a standard and non-scary option, and not something for criminals and troublemakers only.  Stealth has those connotations, and I have a feeling it will become put in a corner.  I think he is also a bit biased in that the super-plugged-in people (aka meetup attendees) have heard of this term and it's too late to change it.  I disagree that it's really that well known, even within the Bitcoin community.

Names seem to fall out of describing how something is used or describing what it does.  We should also focus describing traditional addresses as well, to see if there might be a way to relabel them.

If two people have the same key, that's not really a collision in this sense.

It wouldn't have access to the "entire wallet", only that specific address.

Since it is only talking about collisions of different keys, I have no idea why you claim this is only marketing.  This is an important distinction for addresses, since it is "compressed" forms of large keys.  Ensuring you generate keys using good sources of entropy is an entirely different security concern, as is someone accessing your private key and using that.

A & B send to a 4-signature address and get a refund transaction from C&D that is timelocked in the future.
C & D send to a 4-signature address and get a refund transaction from A&B that is timelocked in the future.

Once all funds arrive, make a transaction that spends both going into 4-sig, invalidating the refunds.

If time expires, each pair can decide to execute a refund.

Interesting that you didn't use this approach for creating your own blockchain.

Mastercoin threads should, in the spirit of Mastercoin, be parasitic in its nature and just bloat the threads here.

I figured it was the key or an encrypted version of the key, but it seemed like typing them in would be less error prone than a camera trying to read the dots on steel.  Maybe I'm wrong that it's entirely readable with a camera now.

What is the point of a QR code rather than an encrypted private key?  Less likely for someone to memorize a QR code than a long private key?

This is one of those things that will work really well until it doesn't (sort of like the subprime mortgage market).

As long as housing (Bitshares) go up in value, all is well and the underlying asset can be backed up.  But once it falls, it will ripple through the market, causing even more instability, crashing the whole house of cards to nothing.

Definitely not a Ponzi, just another bad idea that is just good enough to get attention and work for a period of time until it doesn't.

- You have to buy some expensive piece of hardware called a modem even if you already have a computer
- You tie up your entire phone line or have to buy an additional phone line just to use it
- Barely anyone has an email address, so who are you going to send email to?
- Hardly any companies have ways to buy things, plus it's not secure enough to send your credit card
- You have to be an expert to install software to connect to the internet
- Criminals and terrorists might use it.

Maybe you could use this as a platform to launch your career as a replacement for him as Counsel.  For your first task, I'd like a 3 page essay on what you would present to Congress.

I remember they had severe performance problems early, maybe they have been fixed.  If they have a way to query about the block chain, relay and hold the blockchain, that's good enough for a full node IMO.  Glad to see it's working.  I liked their talk.

I had a friend who bought whole units, didn't know you could buy fractions.  It's not common sense by far.  I remember people talking about Silk Road too thinking they had to buy in increments of 1 BTC.

When btcd presented, it sounded like they aren't quite complete yet.  Maybe they have finished it in the last month.  It sounds promising, I liked their architecture quite a bit.  I'm not as familiar with Go, so I didn't dig into the source, but the Conformal guys definitely get it and I wish their project could get more traction.

I've also looked into Bits Of Proof, not super close, but close enough, and like that a lot too.  I need to get more up to speed on JMS to really play with it more, but it has promise.  That's the stack I am planning on looking at most closely going forward.

Right now there are two comedians on board, but I'm planning to expand shortly.  Right now, there is a special download for $.10 of Tom Simmons's End the Fed joke.  If you like it, please buy his full performance for only $4 in Bitcoin.

100% of proceeds are going to the comedians!  Tom's also a big believer in Bitcoin, so he's going to accumulate rather than cash in.

No, just smoking some of the same stuff you clearly are.

Mining Gold should be renamed "Generating Gold", obviously.

Mining is not exclusively related to uncovering energy.  Mining gold does not create energy.  Mining iron does not create energy.  Should that be renamed to burying gold?