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That UI stinks. Who would know to click on the QR code to open a payment request? A payment request doesn't even involve addresses that are visible to the user, it makes no sense that it is under "send to address".

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Hopefully they just have a really big click target and clicking on the address would have worked too, although I admit some clear verbage or a button would probably be better. It is good practice to link images and areas around actions in general, because users do tend to click on them.

QR codes aren't the sort of thing anybody has been trained to click though, there's no other cue to even begin to suggest that it might initiate a payment request. To me that would just be a QR code of a Bitcoin address that is in plaintext to the right of it. Showing me this page I would have said there's no payment request support at all.

Looks like even for handling the older URI protocol they don't underline the linked destination address to send money to unless you hover over it: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/78127728420/support-for-bitcoi...

So destination address could be clickable in this. I think they should keep it underlined, though, personally. I guess even Google is throwing that out lately.

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