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Use EIP55 checksum for address encoding #194

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0xc1c4da opened this issue Aug 22, 2016 · 4 comments
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Use EIP55 checksum for address encoding #194

0xc1c4da opened this issue Aug 22, 2016 · 4 comments

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0xc1c4da commented Aug 22, 2016

It is possible to encode Ethereum addresses into IBAN address, the benefit for this would be future integration with existing banking systems and checksum against malformed addresses.

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/ICAP:-Inter-exchange-Client-Address-Protocol

We should make this the default (whilst also handling normal ethereum addresses)

@0xc1c4da 0xc1c4da changed the title switch ethereum addresses to ICAP equivellent default ethereum addresses to ICAP equivellent Aug 22, 2016
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Further Reading;

ethereum/EIPs#55
ethereum/EIPs#57

ethereum/EIPs#70

@0xc1c4da 0xc1c4da changed the title default ethereum addresses to ICAP equivellent Use EIP55 checksum for address encoding Jan 8, 2017
@0xc1c4da 0xc1c4da added this to the 0.9.7 milestone Feb 4, 2017
@0xc1c4da 0xc1c4da removed this from the 0.9.7 milestone Jul 24, 2017
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sla-shi commented Jul 28, 2017

@jarradh can we skip this for the Beta?

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