Hello Karl,
Yes, I agree in general. But while the visual checksum could be sometimes more interesting and
even useful, I guess that the technically simpler solution might be more likely to be adopted.
And also less prone to error. Just a thought.
Cheers,
TS
Karl wrote on 8/19/21 4:05 PM:
Something that could work really well here could be having a norm of using the checksum for
bright colors, weights, sizes, capitalizations, and/or spacing of the characters of the
address, making different addresses more clearly visually distinct.
Ethereum uses mixed case to do this a little bit:
https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-55#implementation
<https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-55#implementation>
It seems to me the checksum at the end of the address is sufficient for differentiating error,
but making a checksum more visually distinctive is indeed an opportunity to add another
digest, reducing collisions and such.
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