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[Litecoin][Taproot] Wrong encoding address format #1530

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regnarock opened this issue Sep 12, 2024 · 0 comments
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[Litecoin][Taproot] Wrong encoding address format #1530

regnarock opened this issue Sep 12, 2024 · 0 comments

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regnarock commented Sep 12, 2024

Using the API, I ran into a very odd behaviour:

I could see my taproot address ltc1pa3rcf5wm8mf9lxuvx6ytzjn8anrjlxhh485apwxjj6szw02we99qvahx8f (ltc1p-vahx8f for short):
https://blockchair.com/litecoin/transaction/013f1e21d086cca4d59ae593c7967fb07e64d559c08727fb23b64953422af38f
I had just received a payment from a friend ltc1qng3m49mzt0m9lea58hxajphwwpe03jxpx5v2ds (ltc1q2ds) for short, that we can indeed see in tx 013f1e21d086cca4d59ae593c7967fb07e64d559c08727fb23b64953422af38f.
Because he used litescribe, his change address is themself, but the receiving address is... ltc1pa3rcf5wm8mf9lxuvx6ytzjn8anrjlxhh485apwxjj6szw02we99qep82zt (ltc1p-ep82zt) and clicking on it gives an address with absolutely no transaction history 🤯

Even stranger, I tried using the API to request information about my account, and to my surprise:

  • https://api.blockchair.com/litecoin/dashboards/address/013f1e21d086cca4d59ae593c7967fb07e64d559c08727fb23b64953422af38f (ltc1p-vahx8f) => no results
  • https://api.blockchair.com/litecoin/dashboards/address/ltc1pa3rcf5wm8mf9lxuvx6ytzjn8anrjlxhh485apwxjj6szw02we99qep82zt (ltc1p-ep82zt) => exact same balance, tx history as the one shown by the online explorer for ltc1p-vahx8f

From there, I wanted to understand why my wallet address ending in vahx8f was converted to ending in ep82zt and realized it was only those endings that differed! Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 3 35 27 PM
It seems something must go wrong somewhere within blockchair that wrongly interprets the end of taproot LTC addresses?

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