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Title: Wallet addresses? Post by: Bitgran on January 14, 2014, 08:08:37 PM .
Title: Re: Wallet addresses? Post by: therobotswillwin on January 14, 2014, 08:19:26 PM Different currencies have different prefixes. I assume it's based on part of the encryption algorithm, but don't know for sure. All of the addresses for a single coin share the same prefix from what I have seen.
Title: Re: Wallet addresses? Post by: tompa555 on January 14, 2014, 08:25:25 PM every coin address starts with first letter. like doge, starts with D********. I think only BitCoin don't have such rule. go to https://www.cryptsy.com there you can see all coins with their symbols. Their tree letters to be correct.
Title: Re: Wallet addresses? Post by: DannyHamilton on January 14, 2014, 08:42:59 PM The format of a crypto-currency address is entirely up to the choice of the creators of that crypto-currency.
Many of the creators of various alt-coins have chosen to use a format similar to bitcoin, but with a different starting character (or set of characters) so that they won't be confused with bitcoin addresses (or the addresses of other alt-coins). If I recall correctly, bitcoin has 2 different types of addresses that it supports right now. It uses a different starting character to differentiate between the 2 types of addresses. The standard single signature address always starts with a 1. I think if you create a multi-sig address, then it starts with a 3, but I could be mistaken. Title: Re: Wallet addresses? Post by: Picoin on January 14, 2014, 08:43:47 PM Yeah, altcoin dev's can use the prefix they like.
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