Why Bitcoin Testnet Address Started With m, n, 2, or tb1, Instead Of 1, 3, or bc1 (Like On The Mainnet)?
Its already bad with people sending forked altcoins to mainnet (or viceversa), imagine if testnet used the same...
Topic: Why Bitcoin Testnet Has Different Address Prefix? (Read 242 times)
Its already bad with people sending forked altcoins to mainnet (or viceversa), imagine if testnet used the same...
To prevent TestNet addresses from being confused with MainNet addresses and prevent possible money losses.
On testnet private keys uses a different format too.
I found this with all address prefixes: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes
Just like most of bitcoin forks use a different address format to prevent money losses. For example, Bcash now uses q..., bitcore uses btx... bitcoingold uses g.... and so on.
To prevent TestNet addresses from being confused with MainNet addresses and prevent possible money losses.
Why Bitcoin Testnet Address Started With m, n, 2, or tb1, Instead Of 1, 3, or bc1 (Like On The Mainnet)?
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