Should digital currency be named after the husband? — Why it is a bad idea to stop starting Bitcoin addresses with 1

Chapter 0 Introduction

Let’s do a multiple-choice question first.

Please select the address below that you think is a copycat coin, multiple choice question:

A：14mhzjkJ71oMAMkKu3dy98dnUpkyQBHL1r

B: bc1qw508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kv8f3t4

C:p2xtZoXeX5X8BP8JfFhQK2nD3emtjch7UeFm

D：LaAhggWQH4iVqDVdqs6tfcWKJzi9DC4bHN

E：DMWY17vUqXNmbN4Yd6Eg9Rp3mjQwHDnD7a

Write down your answers and read on.

Chapter 1 Why do so many people discriminate against using QQ Mail?

I have registered and used a lot of emails such as Yahoo, 163, Gmail, and QQ. So far, I mainly use QQ and Gmail.

QQ Mail is the best email service I have ever used. The biggest advantage is that numbers can be used as email addresses without ambiguity, just like reporting a phone number. If you are like me and don't speak Mandarin well, you will know the difference between reporting letters and numbers when calling someone.

QQ Mail handles spam very well. Even if it is an email from his good son Jingdong, as long as you define it as spam, QQ Mail will still reject it.

The function of adding an address book to QQ Mail is also very convenient. The QQ name is used by default. Everyone has a QQ number anyway, so it is very convenient to send emails between acquaintances.

Even though I can think of many advantages for QQ Mail, there are still a lot of people who think that using it to send emails is low-class and detrimental to their image. How serious is this prejudice? Just look at the fact that QQ Mail acquired foxmail.com specifically to solve this prejudice, allowing users to customize their email names and suffixes.

This is a kind of prejudice in user perception, because email has been used to define user names and suffixes with letters since its invention, and there has been no habit of using numbers to define user names for a long time. It was almost impossible to change this habit until QQ became rich.

As a natural instant messaging tool, QQ gives people the feeling of a "leisure" tool. Using this suffix to send emails does not seem "business-like".

When I was looking for a job, I also used a Gmail email address, and used the pinyin of my name as my user name and gmail.com as the suffix of my email address, so as to avoid being looked down upon by the HR who could decide my salary level.

This is the bias caused by long-term habits.

Chapter 2: You can roughly identify nationality from your name

Let’s talk about the power of cultural habits.

We can often judge a person's nationality or place of birth based on his or her name.

For example, Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li..., you generally wouldn't mistake them for foreigners;

For example, when you hear words like patriotism, aiding Korea, building the army, etc., you will think that this is someone who was born during the Cultural Revolution;

You can tell they are Korean just by hearing the surnames like Park, Kim, Choi, etc.

You can tell they are Japanese when you hear surnames like Tanaka, Yamamoto, Takahashi, etc.

The names of the people in that corner of Russia are Fu, Wa, Ski...

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From the cultural positioning formed by these names, we can feel how powerful a name within a fixed format is. It is so powerful that this factor alone can identify a person's general background.

Chapter 3 Address is the best tool for digital currency to demonstrate cultural power

Now let’s go back to the multiple-choice question at the beginning of the article. Anyone who has worked in digital currency knows that A is Bitcoin, D is Litecoin, and E is Dogecoin.

But do you know what coins B and C are? Think back to whether your answer attributes them to altcoins.

Now the answer is announced. B is the latest proposal by Core developer Pieter Wuille to change the Bitcoin address to this, and C is the segregated witness address defined in BIP142 included in the early version of segregated witness (the current segregated witness has not adopted BIP142).

But what is certain is that these two addresses are judged by most people to be altcoins.

Because for users, when they first come into contact with Bitcoin, they need to get an address, and what this address looks like is very important to users. Bitcoin has been running for 8 years, and the address shown to users always starts with a number such as 1.

Starting with 1 or other numbers is the "surname" of Bitcoin. Why change this? I don't know what these developers are doing.

If what Dr. Wuille said is true, the new address format can reduce the space of the QR code and the error detection capability. Well, this function is possible, which is good, but it certainly won't stand out from the beginning of 1. You can add characters later, even if it's longer, but it's best not to change the beginning of the number.

Chapter 4 Conclusion

American women take their husband’s surname after marriage. Has this tradition also been inherited by Core developers? Do they have to change Bitcoin’s surname just to add a function?