Quote from: Saint-loup on Today at 12:20:02 PM

Quote from: DaveF on December 17, 2022, 02:55:12 PM

Quote from: NeuroticFish on December 17, 2022, 10:09:35 AM

.... Yes, it may not be accurate, in some cases the wrong address may be returned/checked, but I don't know of better tools.

Sorry I didn't put it clearly, it's not that there are no better tools, it's the fact that there are no tools or even a way to be sure.

If you can't see the full address and the private key so you can verify that the private key is actually, for that address, while making sure nobody else has seen / still has the private key then you no longer have BTC.

You have a lottery ticket that may or may not have BTC in it when you finally scratch it off.

Look a handy thread that not enough people read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3315347.0

-Dave

Well this thread is more about classic scams you can get with many other goods you can purchase online unfortunately. But what you said above is interesting, for you the acceptable limit of a shortened address should be 10 characters at least. Address strings shorter than that are such risky? I mean 7+ characters is not enough according to you? Are there some figure (stastistics) about that somewhere?

Depends on how you look at it.
For the most part not really there is no number. You have to trust whoever is generating the keys that they are not keeping a copy of the private key.
If you trust them, then past that then 10+ should be fairly safe from someone duplicating them.

Some coin makers give a complete address list, those should be safe (eliminating the hologram peel / replace) others do not.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2022902.0

For other things it really becomes a matter of trust vs amount.

I am more likely to trust that someone did not bother to scam me for BTC0.01 then a BTC1.0
But foe now I really can't think of a reason to use 1stbits anymore.

-Dave