Hello guys,
Do you think it’s possible to censor crypto address in topics? Not even sure a regex can do that… am I right?
Thanks.
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What’s a crypto address?
What do you mean by “censor” - hide? block? force review/approval?
Ok, this is a example of a crypto address : 0x6dD9EF7464A3c28f1285bCCB95bE83dC4A9De3ca
Not easy to detect by a regex imho. What I would like is that if a member tries to publish an address of this type it is obfuscated in the public message. And possibly visible for moderation but this is not necessarily the most important.
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Very easy to detect by a regex since it’s always 0x and then 40 characters a-f and numbers.
/^0x[a-fA-F0-9]{40}$/g
BTC addresses would be ^[13][a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z1-9]{25,34}$ (13 followed by 25 to 34 characters, excluding l, I, O and 0)
Add this to watched words and don’t forget to enable settings - posting - “watched words regular expressions”.
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Depending on which regexp engine you’re using it can be written as
/^0x\h{40}$/
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Thanks both.
If I’m not mistaken, there are as many sequences of addresses as crypto tokens. The example I provided is for the LINK token, but for ETH, BTC, XRP… and hundreds of others how to do it?
But in general it is easy to recognise a crypto address visually, this long sequence of characters is rather typical, so I was wondering if AI could not solve this problem more widely.
It seems feasible to you in Discourse (a plugin maybe?)
I don’t think this is so complicated that we would need AI to solve it.
What they all have in common is that they’re a pretty long string of characters without any spaces, so ^[a-zA-Z0-9]{25,60}$ would get you pretty far.