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FWIW, "wallet address typo" should never be a thing. There's a serious checksum in each of the BTC wallet formats that makes the chances of any random set of t
by quesera 2y ago
FWIW, "wallet address typo" should never be a thing.
There's a serious checksum in each of the BTC wallet formats that makes the chances of any random set of typos extremely unlikely to be valid.
A mis-pasted (but valid) wallet address could happen.
Not to minimize the myriad other ways to easily lose, or lose control of, cryptocurrency!
- lxgr 2y agoBitcoin does, but Ethereum doesn’t, at least not originally. There is some way to encode a checksum in the capitalization of the letters/digits A-F, but I’m not sure how ubiquitously supported that is. It seems like a pretty bad hack in any case.
- quesera 2y agoFascinating, I am unaware of the inner workings of Ethereum. It boggles that they could make such a massive design error, especially with the Bitcoin examples staring them in the face.
- lxgr 2y agoI believe the idea was that “nobody will use raw low level addresses, so we don’t need to make them usable”. But ENS is now prohibitively expensive in terms of fees and also not universally supported, so here we are.