ts [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2021-08-21 📝 Original message:Hello Karl, Yes, I agree ...

📅 Original date posted:2021-08-21
📝 Original message:Hello Karl,

Yes, I agree in general. But while the visual checksum could be sometimes more interesting and
even useful, I guess that the technically simpler solution might be more likely to be adopted.
And also less prone to error. Just a thought.

Cheers,
TS


Karl wrote on 8/19/21 4:05 PM:
> Something that could work really well here could be having a norm of using the checksum for
> bright colors, weights, sizes, capitalizations, and/or spacing of the characters of the
> address, making different addresses more clearly visually distinct.
>
> Ethereum uses mixed case to do this a little bit:
> https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-55#implementation
> <https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-55#implementation>;
>
> It seems to me the checksum at the end of the address is sufficient for differentiating error,
> but making a checksum more visually distinctive is indeed an opportunity to add another
> digest, reducing collisions and such.