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January 17, 2014, 09:14:00 PM
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Sorry for the silliness, but can you imagine crypto without it? Cue paranoid nightmare of checking everything ten times.

In fact... some malware that changed a random letter when you cut and paste any string longer than 12 characters could end us all.
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January 17, 2014, 09:35:29 PM
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Copy/Paste for now ..but that won't remain the primary method of capturing an address.

KryptoKit, a Chrome plugin for example, automatically extracts BTC addresses from within webpages and places them into a list to select from within the wallet. Or, it allows you to click on any address in a page and it will populate the address field in the wallet too.
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January 17, 2014, 10:19:19 PM
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That is great, thanks for telling me.
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January 17, 2014, 10:21:31 PM
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i was under the impression if you got a character wrong it would make the checksum invalid
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January 18, 2014, 04:35:17 AM
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i was under the impression if you got a character wrong it would make the checksum invalid

Yes, that's correct, it's actually pretty hard to accidentally type in a valid address, and that should caught by any client before you send your coins to a black hole.
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