I am moving the discussion from the Signature Campaign thread to this thread since it's more relevant here. Responding to your previous post here.
The Note Public Address is in fact the Legacy Bitcoin address corresponding to the private key you saved, the only difference is that every '1' is changed to 'ww' so again, you can easily distinguish a Whirlwind Note from a Bitcoin address.
Example:
ww-L4xK361wZYYxJg7vSwXgDTVBVXY4JfgYrUU5QZic2nNB9PUbMzbt - Note Private Key
ww8Sf8x3GBUiTxg55RQEzynf2Cdyy7F1ihh - Note Public Address
L4xK361wZYYxJg7vSwXgDTVBVXY4JfgYrUU5QZic2nNB9PUbMzbt - Bitcoin Private Key
18Sf8x3GBUiTxg55RQEzynf2Cdyy7F1ihh - Legacy Bitcoin address
Okay. This increased my confusion further. Let's say I am not a Bitcointalk user, and I am not a signature participant too. I am an average Joe from a Google search and want to mix my Bitcoin. How do I suppose to know that I have to replace that
ww with
1? I mean, I did not find any explanation or any instruction regarding the address. I never saw a Bitcoin Address Start with
ww, so I asked in the signature campaign thread.
ww2xmfzikTonuQc3iw7Xezvd9qwHibxryRj This is the Note Public address I got from my note, and the description/ I button says
You can share this public address with other users to receive payments. What if someone sends their Bitcoin to this address without replacing the ww with a 1? I know some wallets will give a warning that it's an incorrect Bitcoin address, but my question is still the same how an average Joe supposed to know that he has to send his Bitcoin to
12xmfzikTonuQc3iw7Xezvd9qwHibxryRj and not to
ww2xmfzikTonuQc3iw7Xezvd9qwHibxryRj.