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johnisgood 4 days ago

Copy paste, and triple check the first and last 4 characters.

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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.

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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.