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No number of confirmation dialogs going to help anyone in determining that their 27+ digit address is mistyped.
by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
No number of confirmation dialogs going to help anyone in determining that their 27+ digit address is mistyped.
- johnisgood 1y agoCopy paste, and triple check the first and last 4 characters.
- pants2 1y agoNot good enough, scammers will make copycat look-alike addresses that have the same first ~7 and last ~7 characters.
- johtso 1y agoWhat about something like VisualHostKey but for the bitcoin address?
- johnisgood 1y agoI doubt that would help much. People should clear their clipboard, and copy & paste, then double check the whole thing, or at least the first and last few characters.
- johnisgood 1y agoWhat does this mean in practice though? If you need to be certain, make sure you copy the right address.
- charcircuit 1y agoBad actors can easily pregenerate adresses that mach those ahead of time.
- nullc 1y agoBad advice scammers/malware have huge tables of addresses they've generated that agree in the first N and last N characters. If a user is going to compare a subset they should make an effort to make it be an unpredictable subset.