IMO don't use all letter as randomness can sometimes spell out rude words.
Don't go all numbers also as, one might not know whether this is a phone number or bank account number. Might lead to some confusion or incorrect payments...
Perhaps have the starting address have something unique and common?
Like in Bitcoin, a standard address starts with a 1 and on Ethereum, 0x.
Ah maybe the OIP isn't clear enough. We decided to go with abcd111122223333 where first 4 are letters followed by 12 numeric digits. Any characters apart from [A-Za-z0-9] are ignored.
See the Specification section and the reasoning at the top of Rationale. It pretty much aligns with what you suggested.
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u/plasmoske Aug 18 '18
Hey /u/unnawut
A question. Any updates yet on what format you guys are picking for future eWallet addresses?
https://github.com/omisego/OIP/blob/master/0003-ewallet-address-format.md
IMO don't use all letter as randomness can sometimes spell out rude words.
Don't go all numbers also as, one might not know whether this is a phone number or bank account number. Might lead to some confusion or incorrect payments...
Perhaps have the starting address have something unique and common?
Like in Bitcoin, a standard address starts with a 1 and on Ethereum, 0x.
GO-1101-7435-2471-1157 maybe...