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| ▲ | pants2 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not good enough, scammers will make copycat look-alike addresses that have the same first ~7 and last ~7 characters. |
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| ▲ | johnisgood 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | What does this mean in practice though? If you need to be certain, make sure you copy the right address. | |
| ▲ | johtso 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What about something like VisualHostKey but for the bitcoin address? | | |
| ▲ | johnisgood 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I 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. |
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| ▲ | nullc 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Bad 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. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Bad actors can easily pregenerate adresses that mach those ahead of time. |
