📅 Original date posted:2021-08-21
📝 Original message:Hello Karl,
Yes, I agree in general. But while the visual checksum could be sometimes more interesting and
even useful, I guess that the technically simpler solution might be more likely to be adopted.
And also less prone to error. Just a thought.
Cheers,
TS
Karl wrote on 8/19/21 4:05 PM:
> Something that could work really well here could be having a norm of using the checksum for
> bright colors, weights, sizes, capitalizations, and/or spacing of the characters of the
> address, making different addresses more clearly visually distinct.
>
> Ethereum uses mixed case to do this a little bit:
> https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-55#implementation
> <https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-55#implementation>;
>
> It seems to me the checksum at the end of the address is sufficient for differentiating error,
> but making a checksum more visually distinctive is indeed an opportunity to add another
> digest, reducing collisions and such.
ts [ARCHIVE] /
npub16g…8hzyg
2023-06-07 22:58:09
in reply to nevent1q…srrc
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