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Re:Ask HN: For Bitcoin to be ubiquitous, what must happen? by jerguismi on Sunday November 17, 2013 @04:50PM (#6751104)
There are checksums, fairly good actually. If I remember right, about 4 bytes of checksum, so the change to mistype is fairly low.

There have been some solution proposals to the problems you describe, firstbits comes to mind: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Firstbits

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