Stupidly sent some Hirocoin to a f***ing Huntercoin address by mistake.
Can I create a new Hirocoin address of my choosing or are they always random?
Id like to create a new Hirocoin address with the same address as the Huntercoin address I accidentally sent to.
150 HIC BOUNTY
The answer is basically no. For bitcoin, the chances of generating an address that has a balance is 1-e**(-((21*10**14)**2)/(2*(2**256))), which is such an infinitesimally small chance that there's really no point trying. Hirocoin has a much higher max coin limit too as I understand so the chance would be even less...
The security issue here is if you can generate an address that's the same as one that you've sent to, you could basically hijack absolutely anybody's account - that was taken into consideration before even the initial release of Bitcoin.
This really is something that should be dealt with by devs - they can't all use the same 26 address sets, by just changing the PUBKEY_ADDRESS in the code... They need to validate the address hash against more than just that in the wallet.
Either that or they have to say screw anyone who pastes the wrong address in there. Something has to give sooner or later - the number of coins out there is at critical mass, and with scrypt ASICs coming out I see many of them dying a quick, but nevertheless extremely painful death.