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by turkeytotal 3163 days ago
Addresses have a checksum so unless the wallet ignores that, a fat finger causing funds loss in that scenario is unlikely. [0] With the newly designed address format there is also error detection. [1]

[0] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/32353/how-do-i-c...

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...