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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by RL_Quine on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:43AM (#23691189)
You have a one in 232 chance of making a typo in an address and it being valid for P2PKH, its even less for modern bech32 addresses.
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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by grapehut on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:36PM (#23691867)
A 1 in 200 chance doesn't make much sense. In (legacy) addresses there's a 4 byte checksum done with sha256, so it should be something like a 1-in-4-billion (1 in 2^32) chance of a typo being valid. bech32 does something even smarter, but I'm not familiar with the details
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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by RL_Quine on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:23PM (#23692454)
The formatting was stripped. I meant 2^32.
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