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Re: Same Addy but different coins. BTC and BCH!!!!
by
odolvlobo
on 19/03/2019, 05:13:04 UTC
Quote from: ConcernedCoiner on March 19, 2019, 04:38:45 AM
Quote from: pooya87 on March 19, 2019, 03:46:41 AM
Quote from: ConcernedCoiner on March 19, 2019, 02:29:31 AM
BCHAddress
https://www.blockchain.com/bch/address/3Jt57eZZoxhw1z8CndcDpQA2K6ubBfGsL1

there is no balance in this address that you linked here. and there should not be any, BCash has implemented a well working replay protection which prevents from things like that (a transaction being replayed in another chain) from happening.

the address being valid on other copies of bitcoin is just because they copied bitcoin without thinking and have been causing a lot of problems during the years starting from litecoin (copied P2SH) and has been going on until today with all these nonsense forks.

Agreed but isn't peculiar that there are 2 identical addies with the original and a fork of
BTC?


It is not peculiar. An address is just a number and every number is a valid address. Both coins use the same format for encoding the number, so you will get the same addresses regardless of the coin. This can be annoying and dangerous because it is not uncommon for someone the send BCH to an address displayed by a BTC wallet. Luckily, both BTC and BCH have new address formats that are different.