blockchain.info not resolving longer firstbits

drrussellshane

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Quote from: Hermel on January 10, 2014, 09:50:00 AM

Firstbits are essential if one wants to verify Casascius coins... Sad

You can verify Casascius balances by searching for the firstbits here: https://www.casascius.com/fulllist.txt

and then copying and pasting the full bitcoin address into blockchain.info or another blockchain parser.

Hermel

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Firstbits are essential if one wants to verify Casascius coins... Sad

Jouke

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Quote from: greBit on August 15, 2013, 10:17:34 AM

This is not working for me either .. I can no longer find myself (1WillB) as a firstbits address Sad

Could we not have support for firstbits addresses in the Bitcoin clients?

It is giving out the wrong firstbits at the moment :-/

greBit

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This is not working for me either .. I can no longer find myself (1WillB) as a firstbits address Sad

Could we not have support for firstbits addresses in the Bitcoin clients?

DeathAndTaxes

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Quote from: wtogami on August 11, 2013, 05:19:51 PM

Please know that firstbits always was a seriously bad idea for security and a really poor way of identifying if the owner of an address is who you expect it to be.

That is true

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Have you heard of hash collisions?

This is not. There is no increased risk of collision.

wtogami

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Please know that firstbits always was a seriously bad idea for security and a really poor way of identifying if the owner of an address is who you expect it to be. Have you heard of hash collisions?

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Vertrau in Gott

Quote from: Abdussamad on August 11, 2013, 02:06:57 AM

Blockchain.info seems to be the only site that offers to resolve firstbit addresses. So it is a big deal when they suddenly stop resolving longer firstbit addresses. These are not vanity addresses. I just need them to resolve via their API. For example, my profile address:

1CYNQBmD6kmtmSfZ3hMSQyrS6oirDA9P8H

If you search for 1CYNQB it doesn't work.

OTOH some longer firstbits do work like 1hiccupped . So anyone know what is going on? Are only vanity first bits resolving?

Did you call the bitcoin police yet? Iam sure theyll help you

Abdussamad

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All the addresses in question have already had transactions before.

manic

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receiving a transaction made the firstbits come up...

Abdussamad

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Blockchain.info seems to be the only site that offers to resolve firstbit addresses. So it is a big deal when they suddenly stop resolving longer firstbit addresses. These are not vanity addresses. I just need them to resolve via their API. For example, my profile address:

1CYNQBmD6kmtmSfZ3hMSQyrS6oirDA9P8H

If you search for 1CYNQB it doesn't work.

OTOH some longer firstbits do work like 1hiccupped . So anyone know what is going on? Are only vanity first bits resolving?

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