Questions about Monero address format, length, checksum and validity.
Questions tagged [address-verification]
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Why are Monero addresses so long?
A raw Monero address is 95 characters long compared to 26-34 characters for a Bitcoin address.
Monero integrated address are even longer at 106 characters.
What is the cryptographic reason that causes Monero addresses to be so much longer than…
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How to perform a simple verification of a Monero address with a regular expression?
For people that want to do a simple verification of a Monero address to ensure it has been entered correctly, what are some methods that can be employed?
ferretinjapan
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What do Monero addresses have in common?
Monero addresses are very long and are supposed to be random, but I have noticed that all of them start with the number 4. Are there any other similarities shared by all Monero addresses?
sgp
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How can I check if a Monero address is valid?
Handling a user's input in which I want to make sure that he used a valid monero address.
Bitcoin has all these rules found here and I found something similar for ethereum as well.
I was wondering if Monero has some general rules I can be checking…
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How to programatically validate Monero address
When withdrawing with BTC this line of code checks for empty wallet and a false wallet addresses and aborts the withdrawal if either are detected. I have the empty part working for XMR what would I use for the actual address…
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Aeon support at https://xmr.llcoins.net/
According to a message found on the https://xmr.llcoins.net/ website:
Only XMR is fully supported by this site. Use at your own risk, there is no warranty, etc.
Despite this warning message, in addition to XMR addresses (standard, testnet,…
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Sent monero to the wrong address
I know that if I transfer moneroj to an incorrect but otherwise valid address, I will lose my moneroj. So I am wondering:
What is the likelihood that a 95-character string corresponds to a valid monero address?
If the address is invalid, will I…
assylias
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Monero address validation using Java
I wonder if there is a Java implementation of Monero addresses validation code somewhere?
I've found this JS implementation which seems to work well:
https://github.com/ognus/wallet-address-validator/blob/master/src/monero_validator.js
and, an…
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Monero address prefix creation algorithm
As I read in the monerobook:
uint64_t const CRYPTONOTE_PUBLIC_ADDRESS_BASE58_PREFIX = 18;
Monero's main network uses '18' to indicate a primary address (this is
why Monero primary addresses begin with a '4,' which is the ASCII
representation).
but…
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Missing 1 character in Monero address generation from a seed using Javascript
I have an interesting one off case with a Monero address generation where I am generating a 94 character Monero address vs 95 characters. However when I take the private_spend_key and run it through the monero_wallet_cli I get the full 95…
Patoshi パトシ
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Verify transaction was sent by known public address
Is there a way to check/verify if a transaction was sent by a specific known public address?
Thanks for your help!
Rick
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