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Jameson Lopp suggested updating wallet software to include warnings about similar-looking malicious addresses
Jameson Lopp stated that the odds of any single address poisoning attack succeeding are relatively low, but attackers can carry out thousands of attempts cheaply due to low transaction fees
Jameson Lopp explained that attackers generate Bitcoin addresses matching the first and last characters of legitimate user addresses to deceive users

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