Knowledge may not help me turn my life around overnight, but it can help me pay less in tuition.
This lesson's topic: address poisoning
Only checking the beginning and end of an address won't protect you from address poisoning, because it's not costly to generate addresses with matching first and last few characters.
Before making a large transfer, you can send a small amount first, confirm with the recipient that it arrived, and then send the rest.
Wallets that frequently send and receive stablecoins and $ETH are more likely to be targeted by address poisoning. Currently: 2442.29.
#ETH
This is not investment advice of any kind. You are responsible for your own gains and losses.
This lesson's topic: address poisoning
Only checking the beginning and end of an address won't protect you from address poisoning, because it's not costly to generate addresses with matching first and last few characters.
Before making a large transfer, you can send a small amount first, confirm with the recipient that it arrived, and then send the rest.
Wallets that frequently send and receive stablecoins and $ETH are more likely to be targeted by address poisoning. Currently: 2442.29.
#ETH
This is not investment advice of any kind. You are responsible for your own gains and losses.