Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 08:57:03 AM

Quote from: Sinzu_ on July 07, 2023, 06:57:10 PM

Yes mine may start with 1Sinzu but the followup characters will definitely be different.

Correct. But with increasingly powerful hardware becoming increasingly cheaper, it is becoming increasing easier for attackers to mimic existing addresses.

You'll often see people saying something along the lines of check 3 characters at the start of the address and 3 characters at the end. This is completely insufficient. An attacker can very easily brute force an address which matches this criteria, or even 4 or 5 characters. The only way to be safe is to double check the entire address. It takes <10 seconds to do this, so there really is no excuse for ever falling to such a scam.

would you recommend that people should stop unity vanity bitcoin kind of addresses?