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November 10, 2011, 06:38:37 PM |
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Using namecoind on Windows I mistakenly used 'sendtoaddress' with a bitcoin wallet address. The client had no problem with that and gave me a transaction code. Also, my wallet address is zero. Are those coins lost in cyberspace?  |
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Bitcoin addresses contain a checksum, so it is very unlikely that mistyping an address will cause you to lose money.
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November 10, 2011, 07:34:42 PM |
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I don't know enough about the protocol design to say for sure, but you would think that it starting with a "1" would automatically get it rejected. I would assume no miner would put it in a block at the very least. Otherwise there are some pretty piss-poor protocol (lack of) designs in place.
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amazingrando (OP)
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November 10, 2011, 07:38:13 PM |
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I was surprised that it accepted the wallet address. It should have rejected it and told me that it wasn't a valid namecoin wallet address.
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November 18, 2011, 02:19:00 PM |
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Addresses beginning with "1" are accepted for historical reasons, AFAIK. (The "N" prefix wasn't used when Namecoin started.)
If you have the private key for the Bitcoin address I believe you can import it into your Namecoin wallet and claim the coins.
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November 18, 2011, 02:21:51 PM |
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Addresses beginning with "1" are accepted for historical reasons, AFAIK. (The "N" prefix wasn't used when Namecoin started.)
If you have the private key for the Bitcoin address I believe you can import it into your Namecoin wallet and claim the coins.
wow~~ really ? can i just use my bitcoin wallet.dat ? |
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November 18, 2011, 02:22:28 PM |
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Addresses beginning with "1" are accepted for historical reasons, AFAIK. (The "N" prefix wasn't used when Namecoin started.)
If you have the private key for the Bitcoin address I believe you can import it into your Namecoin wallet and claim the coins.
sounds right. the address is just: 1 or N + base56 encoded public key hash. the public key will be the same, no matter what what the prefix is. |
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November 18, 2011, 02:45:23 PM |
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Addresses beginning with "1" are accepted for historical reasons, AFAIK. (The "N" prefix wasn't used when Namecoin started.)
If you have the private key for the Bitcoin address I believe you can import it into your Namecoin wallet and claim the coins.
sounds right. the address is just: 1 or N + base56 encoded public key hash. the public key will be the same, no matter what what the prefix is. Incorrect. See the Wiki for how an address is made: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/AddressThe first character is not just added, it's derived from the Base58 encoding, and there's a checksum at the end too. |
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November 18, 2011, 02:54:27 PM |
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If you back up your wallet frequently, you can just restore the backup since the spent coins won't be confirmed.
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November 18, 2011, 04:56:58 PM |
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If you back up your wallet frequently, you can just restore the backup since the spent coins won't be confirmed.
yes they will. |
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November 18, 2011, 05:11:15 PM |
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If you back up your wallet frequently, you can just restore the backup since the spent coins won't be confirmed.
yes they will. It worked for me. Maybe it was a bug. |
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November 18, 2011, 05:16:18 PM |
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If you back up your wallet frequently, you can just restore the backup since the spent coins won't be confirmed.
yes they will. It worked for me. Maybe it was a bug. it will just be treated as a double spend. You were lucky. was it in the difficulty-way-too-high-time before merged mining? |
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November 18, 2011, 05:23:40 PM |
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If you back up your wallet frequently, you can just restore the backup since the spent coins won't be confirmed.
yes they will. It worked for me. Maybe it was a bug. it will just be treated as a double spend. You were lucky. was it in the difficulty-way-too-high-time before merged mining? It wasn't a namecoin that was spent, but a bitcoin that went to an invalid address that did not get confirmed. I thought this would be the same type of error. It was during the time when DD attacks were going on. |
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November 18, 2011, 05:35:31 PM |
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If you back up your wallet frequently, you can just restore the backup since the spent coins won't be confirmed.
yes they will. It worked for me. Maybe it was a bug. it will just be treated as a double spend. You were lucky. was it in the difficulty-way-too-high-time before merged mining? It wasn't a namecoin that was spent, but a bitcoin that went to an invalid address that did not get confirmed. I thought this would be the same type of error. It was during the time when DD attacks were going on. no hash are invalid. the bit/name-coin address is just a prefix + hash + checksum, the prefix to know which network we are talking about, the hash to specify the address, and the checksum to make sure there is no mistyping. the client will discard a address if the prefix invalid, but the whole address is not in the transaction, only the hash. in the good old times, when namecoin did not have their own prefix, there was no diffrence between bitcoin and namecoin addresses. the hash + checksum, is just a hash of a public key, which can be used on both networks. |
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