I found twin wallet | Bitcointalksearch.org

nc50lc

legendary

Activity: 2534

Merit: 6080

Self-proclaimed Genius

Quote from: NotATether on August 29, 2024, 08:02:53 AM

-snip- and it can easily be generated using a tool such as VanitySearch but without the private key, as long as the checksum matches up with the rest of the address.

The example tool; VanitySearch can actually do that with: ./vanitysearch -stop 1A1***Na command. (with the private key)
And you'll get a result in less than a second too, given that you have a decent hardware; otherwise, within a minute.

Quote from: XtremeMed on August 29, 2024, 07:24:52 AM

guys i want to know if this wallet 1A1YoPiW8CGN3VxwNAv3gM5tEjFSxKj2Na related to satoshi wallet 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

No, that is why users should check most (if too lazy to check all) of the characters of the address when copy-pasting
Because there are some advanced clipboard-hijacking malware/viruses that can do exactly that by utilizing such "vanity address" generator's code.

Smartvirus

legendary

Activity: 1554

Merit: 1139

Quote from: vjudeu on August 29, 2024, 08:17:24 AM

Quote

I said without the private key

Oh wow! Goodness me!!!

Someone actually did that, sending an address accompanied with the private key…! That’s some genuine newbie thingy. Funny how a lot of them don’t make same mistakes, perhaps they learned before ever owning a wallet though.

Wallets having similar starts or/and endings doesn’t make them twin wallets.

Quote from: hugeblack on August 31, 2024, 10:20:42 PM

Thanks, I don't know how I missed @mocacinno's reply but it's a good example of stopping being lazy and double checking address before sending.

At this point, it ain’t about being lazy but, being really ignorant. You don’t know and just go ahead to act.

adaseb

legendary

Activity: 3808

Merit: 1723

Yeah this is called address poisioning but its commonly only used under Ethereum or their L2 networks. Maybe its a issue with Solana also. Never had an address poisoning before on the bitcoin network.

The way it works is as follows, you send a transaction to a specific address, and a few minutes later an similar transaction is send from your wallet, however it sends 0 ETH so due to the way the network is designed, it appears in the block explorer.

You a few months later want to send to that same address, and you quickly copy the latest transaction because it looks similar and it ends up being the scammers address. This has been going around for 2 years now. If bitcoin fees are going to be super low, then I can see it happening on the bitcoin network also but it wont appear as a sent transaction because that bug doesnt work on the bitcoin network.

hugeblack

legendary

Activity: 2688

Merit: 3983

Quote from: vjudeu on August 29, 2024, 08:17:24 AM

Quote from: mocacinno on December 04, 2023, 08:10:53 AM

--

Thanks, I don't know how I missed @mocacinno's reply but it's a good example of stopping being lazy and double checking address before sending.

Ronsbit

member

Activity: 91

Merit: 10

I do not see anything similar or look alike there. It is never possible that there would be similar wallets at the same time. This is likely the reasons why transactions are made into the wrong wallets as the ending and beginning looks or starts with the same alphabet or number. This is also why the needs to always cross check wallet address before making any transaction so that one does not mistakenly send assets to the wrong wallet thinking it is the real one they sent it to.

So therefore, you did not find any twin wallet. If you check well in between the wallets address, you would notice the difference and that alone discredit and also disqualifies it from being a twin wallet and I believe the private keys are not same and would never be the same.

pooya87

legendary

Activity: 3472

Merit: 10611

Quote from: MusaMohamed on August 31, 2024, 04:55:51 AM

Quote from: OgNasty on August 31, 2024, 12:26:35 AM

I’ve noticed people like to try and match the beginning and ending of wallet addresses and pretend they’re connected. I’ve even had people send me transactions from similar wallets with low fees so they never confirm (there’s 1 pending now). I believe they do this in the hopes someone using a block explorer accidentally copies the address from the wrong spot to send them BTC or something. Who knows… Weird that people spend their time doing such things.

This method only can scam people who are very careless and don't check characters in address they are sending bitcoins to. If they spend several seconds, not up to 1 minute, they can check all characters in the address and will not be scammed.

Or you could just use a user-friendly wallet like Electrum that highlight any of the addresses that belong to the opened wallet with some background color in the transaction preview window. This helps the user to easily and quickly identify each address without straining their eyes.

Taskford

hero member

Activity: 2520

Merit: 783

Quote from: MusaMohamed on August 31, 2024, 04:55:51 AM

Quote from: OgNasty on August 31, 2024, 12:26:35 AM

I’ve noticed people like to try and match the beginning and ending of wallet addresses and pretend they’re connected. I’ve even had people send me transactions from similar wallets with low fees so they never confirm (there’s 1 pending now). I believe they do this in the hopes someone using a block explorer accidentally copies the address from the wrong spot to send them BTC or something. Who knows… Weird that people spend their time doing such things.

This method only can scam people who are very careless and don't check characters in address they are sending bitcoins to. If they spend several seconds, not up to 1 minute, they can check all characters in the address and will not be scammed.

Scammers can do what they want, with simple or complicated scam methods but if people lost money to scammers, carelessness must be a biggest reason for their losses. If they can not change themselves practically to be more careful, they will be scammed again in future.

To naive for those people to fall from these kind of scam attempts since if they fall victim on address baiting them that means they have lack of experience towards how they deal with certain scenarios and they need to improve their selves to avoid being a victim of scam for second time.

Verifying is always important to know the real address to look for and avoid being fooled by this attempt or committing bad mistakes for copying the the fake address. Scammers would do all the methods they know since they are trying to catch the carelessness of people and take advantage with that situation then get something from them.

MusaMohamed

sr. member

Activity: 966

Merit: 306

Quote from: OgNasty on August 31, 2024, 12:26:35 AM

I’ve noticed people like to try and match the beginning and ending of wallet addresses and pretend they’re connected. I’ve even had people send me transactions from similar wallets with low fees so they never confirm (there’s 1 pending now). I believe they do this in the hopes someone using a block explorer accidentally copies the address from the wrong spot to send them BTC or something. Who knows… Weird that people spend their time doing such things.

This method only can scam people who are very careless and don't check characters in address they are sending bitcoins to. If they spend several seconds, not up to 1 minute, they can check all characters in the address and will not be scammed.

Scammers can do what they want, with simple or complicated scam methods but if people lost money to scammers, carelessness must be a biggest reason for their losses. If they can not change themselves practically to be more careful, they will be scammed again in future.

OgNasty

donator

Activity: 4760

Merit: 4323

Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform

I’ve noticed people like to try and match the beginning and ending of wallet addresses and pretend they’re connected. I’ve even had people send me transactions from similar wallets with low fees so they never confirm (there’s 1 pending now). I believe they do this in the hopes someone using a block explorer accidentally copies the address from the wrong spot to send them BTC or something. Who knows… Weird that people spend their time doing such things.

AprilioMP

sr. member

Activity: 588

Merit: 438

Forum Only For Fun

Quote from: XtremeMed on August 29, 2024, 10:43:22 AM

this is what i m looking for thanks for sharing i m doing some research Wink

It has been said firmly and I also say about your questions with no words.

If the affirmation that you have recognized and become your knowledge, just the key to this topic to avoid the discussion that comes out of what should be desired.

XtremeMed

newbie

Activity: 8

Merit: 0

this is what i m looking for thanks for sharing i m doing some research Wink

vjudeu

copper member

Activity: 900

Merit: 2243

Quote from: mocacinno on December 04, 2023, 08:10:53 AM

Code:

time ./programname -r 1A1.*Na$
Pattern: 1A1.*Na$
Address: 1A1YoPiW8CGN3VxwNAv3gM5tEjFSxKj2Na
Privkey: 5KAom35z6G2VYC2XyRXYy7QB9nd5hdMwXjZ8Q8iwajWMmQgkB48

real 0m8.508s
user 0m33.955s
sys 0m0.004s

NotATether

legendary

Activity: 1568

Merit: 6660

bitcoincleanup.com / bitmixlist.org

No.

That is just a wallet that has a similar beginning and ending characters, and it can easily be generated using a tool such as VanitySearch but without the private key, as long as the checksum matches up with the rest of the address.

I said without the private key because it's the only way you can fly through the combinations and find one in reasonable time.

XtremeMed

newbie

Activity: 8

Merit: 0

guys i want to know if this wallet 1A1YoPiW8CGN3VxwNAv3gM5tEjFSxKj2Na related to satoshi wallet 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

Topic: I found twin wallet (Read 248 times)