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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Difference between SegWit addresses
by
DannyHamilton
on 03/11/2017, 16:27:27 UTC
So there is no error correction whatsoever in Satoshi-era types like P2PKH and P2SH? (or even the original type P2PK?)

It was possible to detect with reasonable reliability if the address was invalid (one or more errors).

However, it was not possible to easily identify the specific character or characters that were erroneous, nor was it possible to correct those errors for the user.