Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by pants2 290 days ago
Not good enough, scammers will make copycat look-alike addresses that have the same first ~7 and last ~7 characters.
2 comments

What does this mean in practice though? If you need to be certain, make sure you copy the right address.
What about something like VisualHostKey but for the bitcoin address?
I doubt that would help much. People should clear their clipboard, and copy & paste, then double check the whole thing, or at least the first and last few characters.