How to recover a garbled Bitcoin address using error correction
A 2024 technical blog post explains how to recover garbled or partially corrupted Bitcoin addresses using the error-correction properties of the bech32 address format. The format's built-in error-correction code can reconstruct a valid address even when several characters are wrong or missing. The technique could help users recover funds sent to a mistyped wallet address.
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