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piuk
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May 16, 2012, 12:15:32 PM |
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1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8
When I copy and paste the address from you post it has a space (or other invalid character in it) 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7 Y842Ufijs8 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8 is valid. |
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May 16, 2012, 12:20:00 PM |
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1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8
When I copy and paste the address from you post it has a space (or other invalid character in it) 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7 Y842Ufijs8 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8 is valid. I just tried that C&P from myself's post & it worked fine from Gox - I see no space or anything like in your example |
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piuk
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May 16, 2012, 12:28:30 PM |
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I just tried that C&P from myself's post & it worked fine from Gox - I see no space or anything like in your example
Maybe Gox is striping the character. If I double click to select the address in myself's post only part of the address is selected e.g.  But If I double click the address in your sig the whole address is selected. Somewhere along the lines an invalid character got inserted. |
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May 16, 2012, 12:32:45 PM |
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I just tried that C&P from myself's post & it worked fine from Gox - I see no space or anything like in your example
Maybe Gox is striping the character. If I double click to select the address in myself's post only part of the address is selected e.g. But If I double click the address in your sig the whole address is selected. Somewhere along the lines an invalid character got inserted. This solved the issue for me. I was able to send coins using the address you removed the illegal char from. Thanks! |
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May 16, 2012, 12:35:12 PM |
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I just tried that C&P from myself's post & it worked fine from Gox - I see no space or anything like in your example
Maybe Gox is striping the character. If I double click to select the address in myself's post only part of the address is selected e.g. But If I double click the address in your sig the whole address is selected. Somewhere along the lines an invalid character got inserted. weird, when I double click it it all gets selected & works fine |
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May 16, 2012, 06:49:01 PM |
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I'm using a Mac with Firefox & have no problems like this at all, if that helps finding what's going on here
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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)
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May 16, 2012, 06:55:22 PM |
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I have seen this happen if you post an address on Facebook. Facebook inserts a non-printing character in words above a certain length so browsers break them rather than widen columns. That non-printing character can be copied and pasted and will make a perfectly normal-looking address get rejected.
The most sensible remedy is for input dialogs expecting a Bitcoin address to strip these out.
Short of that, just retype the address by hand without copy and paste.
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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May 16, 2012, 07:02:59 PM |
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I just tried that C&P from myself's post & it worked fine from Gox - I see no space or anything like in your example
Maybe Gox is striping the character. If I double click to select the address in myself's post only part of the address is selected e.g. But If I double click the address in your sig the whole address is selected. Somewhere along the lines an invalid character got inserted. weird, when I double click it it all gets selected & works fine Are you on a pc? I am on a mac, and when I double click same thing happens, stops where shown above. but when I do it again entire string gets highlighted. |
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sgravina
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May 16, 2012, 07:18:32 PM |
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1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8
If you look at the html source (use 'view'->'source' in Explorer) of your post you will see: 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7 ​Y842Ufijs8 Where you pasted your address. The '​' is not a printable ASCII character. Your browser chose to show nothing in that place. But if you copy that string those invalid characters are there. Sam |
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May 16, 2012, 07:34:05 PM |
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The most sensible remedy is for input dialogs expecting a Bitcoin address to strip these out.
Input validation for the win. No seriously a good idea. One I will tuck away (and likely forget until something stops working.  ). |
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May 16, 2012, 08:34:14 PM |
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Using Vv0.6.2 of the client it wouldn't even let me paste that address in the PayTo:
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May 16, 2012, 08:40:37 PM |
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May 16, 2012, 08:49:30 PM |
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short term workaround; copy paste the address to notepad and from notepad to wherever you want. That will also remove nonprintable characters. I use it often to copy paste HTML tables to OO Calc and get rid of the HTML markup.
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