Questions about Monero addresses, including address types, usage, purpose and format
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Can a 95-character Monero address be reduced to a mnemonic phrase?
At present a raw integrated Monero address (e.g. 44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A) is 106 base 58 characters. This is a lot for a human to transcribe manually without errors.
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Why Monero address is converted to base 58 in blocks, instead of all at once?
I realize that the public address, which is 69 byte, is converted to base 58, but is not converted as a one large number, but rather each 8 bytes are converted separately.
What's the motivation for that?
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How do I get a custom Monero address?
I've seen people with custom addresses on Monero, like having short custom three or four letter words in the beginning of the 95-character string. How do I get one of these?
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Monero address generated by Kraken
I have a Kraken account and got a Monero address, generated by them.
It starts with 4GdoN7NCTi8a5gZu and has 106 characters in total. There are digits, letters from A to Z, low case and capitals. There are no special symbols in it.
I'm trying to…
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Are there any plans to make monero addresses shorter?
Monero addresses are quite long. Are there any plans to make them shorter?
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Old address format?
In tests/unit_tests/base58.cpp it mentions an old address format. What exactly is the history behind this?
This is the example…
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Are monero addresses always 95 characters long?
Is a monero address always 95 characters long? Reason why is i generated a 93 character somehow from one of my apps im building out. I'm sure its just a bug on my part, but as this only happened once for me.
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What is the base 58 monero alphabet used to create an address?
Is it identical to bitcoin? I know ripple uses a different set of characters, but the same checksum.
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How many characters can be missing or mis-typed in a Monero address to still be valid?
If I mis-typed or left out some characters, what is the threshold where the address won't be valid? I know Bitcoin and some other addresses have some type of error correction built into the address. What is Monero's?
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Is this the longest vanity address in history?
4AbLLLZvjdA3cXr8Xs2LevhActZt3TLGhjiVga99999999999999fvdWrvvfpRHSS78hRznFjpb64BKnn12H5bQFAsifLdj
14 9's in a row is this the longest one in history or is there a longer one? I generated this on a GPU farm running for 6 years with 5000 GPUs on it,…
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When a 8-byte block address generation is less than 11 characters. Do you add 1 to be start or end of the block?
When generating a monero address and one of the 8-byte blocks is less than 11 characters, it states I can pad it with the character 1. Do I always add 1 to the beginning of the block output or at the end?
if a particular block converts to <11…
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How can I combine two public keys to create a joint address?
I'm trying to create a new address that either Alice OR Bob can spend from.
Is there a tool or library I can use to accomplish this?
At a high level:
I'm taking (AlicePrivateSpend + BobPrivateSpend) to make JointPrivateSpend
Multiply by G to get…
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Bitfinex seems to be cutting off the last 3 chars of my 95 char Monero address
Hi I'm trying to withdraw my Monero from Bitfinex, I've extensively googled this question and I haven't found anyone else mentioning it so I assume its not a fault on Bitfinex's end.
I have this Monero address:…
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