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At one point I recall a website that would quietly paste a Bitcoin address into the user's clipboard on every interaction. I'm sure this worked reasonably well

• capableweb 4y ago
  Because almost zero percent of cryptocurrency users blindly paste addresses into clients without at least double-checking it was actually the address they wanted to paste. Most of them are conditioned not to trust anything, and double-verify. If you're sending a large amount, you first send a small amount, verify it arrived to the correct address and then send the proper amount. Verifying the "string of garbage" (which is actually a hash) is simply a matter of checking the first and last four characters, can be done in 10 seconds easily.
  • phyzome 4y ago
    You have a great deal more faith in the competence, rigor, and patience of the average user than I do. (Let alone the 10th percentile user, which is who would be more likely hit.)
• unixbane 4y ago
  This is why you don't break abstractions. If I'm a user I expect the clipboard to only change when I press ctrl+c or right click -> copy. These should be authoritatively controlled mechanisms that untrusted programs cannot override. Going further, I want whatever I copy to be whatever I see when I hit copy. Which of course isn't possible in the interactive web. But unfortunately devs for the last few decades think they can just leave everything undefined and change its meaning for their ad-hoc purposes every minute then claim computing is hard.