--from should be able to take both an address and a name

[adrianbrink]

It would be convenient if --from would also work with a simple address. It's seem counterintuitive that sometimes you need a name and sometimes an address.

[cwgoes]

Sure, that seems helpful.

Can we extend the concept and allow any command referencing an address to look up a name in the local DB? That way users can register public keys for known entities (e.g. their validator) under nice names and avoid mistakes.

[ValarDragon]

1. Should this be prelaunch? I'm unsure, since its a pretty important UI thing, but unsure how many more features we want to postpone launch for.
2. Do we want the implementation of this to be that when you enter an address, we iterate through all entries inside of whatever is called by gaiacli keys list, or instead do we want to have an O(1) data structure to go from address to local pubkey / address. (Similar to Keybase.get's current implementation for names)
3. Should we make a new keybase key type that is just the public key (similar to whats used for the ledger), to achieve what you're suggesting chris? If so, then we'd also have to refactor all arguments that get a pubkey / address that isn't the one which is signing. This probably wouldn't be bad, maybe a client.GetAddrFromArg(arg string), or smth to that extent, which checks all of the sensible formats / queries keybase.

[alexanderbez]

I think this will be extremely helpful. It may seem cumbersome and maybe confusing to some folks to have to provide from and another flag that specifies the actual address.

[jackzampolin]

I think this needs to be prioritized since the major way we are requesting users to interact with our software is through the CLI and this is a significant improvement in UX. The idea of looking up addresses in the localDB should be implemented.

[rigelrozanski]

Okay - so now (develop) everything just uses the from and typically doesn't require that associated address... However - we should still make --from be able to take either an address or a name from the key-store as the issue originally outlined

[zramsay]

so much yes