Actually I never thought of that, but now it makes sense.
As a rule of thumb you should probably only use trusted sites for such things, and when in doubt just pate it in a file first
Topic: the dangers of copy-pasting a wallet address from websites (Read 608 times)
Creepy, thanks for posting. :O
Which is why you always check the first and last couple of characters when you copy and paste. It's reasonably hard to get that, and is 'good enough'. Normally.
I think you'd notice if addresses suddenly has words with spaces.
Copy/Paste into a terminal that's outputting to /dev/null
If nothing looks bad, then you're good.
If nothing looks bad, then you're good.
This gave me the creeps. copy the part in yellow, and paste it in the url bar.
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what's a secure alternative
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