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Counterparty: Peer-to-Peer Finance on Bitcoin
what is the significance of the tail end ...UWLpVr? why not just X's all the way?
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on June 7, 2014
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Every Bitcoin address includes a checksum at the end, so while you can make up any address like in this example, the checksum still needs to be correct in order to form a
valid
address. It's a great feature against typos, btw.
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