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Trust... someone typed in instead of copy pasting an Ethereum address, made a typo and lost five figures.
by chx 9y ago
Trust... someone typed in instead of copy pasting an Ethereum address, made a typo and lost five figures.
- marcosscriven 9y agoAddresses have a checksum for just that reason. It would be remarkably difficult to acccidentally mistype an address that had happened to have the correct checksum, and also be a valid address.
- chx 9y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4yru3h/scared_and_confused/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4yru3h/scared_and... tl;dr: Neither Ethereum nor Bitcoin have address checksums on the protocol level (remember this HN thread here is about trust) but by now all Bitcoin clients decided to implement it. In this case, the exchange used an Ethereum client which didn't.