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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Is the wiki incorrect about length of addresses.
by
dree12
on 21/08/2014, 13:56:16 UTC
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
1111111111111111111114oLvT2

27 characters

0000000000000000000000000000000000000001
11111111111111111111BZbvjr
26 characters

This fact always surprises people. Wink

Another related surprise is that version-zero addresses are on average longer than version-one addresses, due to Satoshi's inefficient encoding of the zero byte. The only exceptions are those addresses with multiple leading zeroes.