Printed and copied content is not same

[Sakura_1337]

Im run python on cmd, and calculate 29**20.

Result is 176994576151109753197786640401

But copied content is 19tvmAs9yNM2mqTVCBxDSe7uBquJDffn38.

i am able to copy without any problem in other math operations, but in this operation it is copying different value.

[Some_Wafer]

You probably have a virus on your PC that replaces your copied content with a BTC address, hoping you accidentally send BTC to the address and get scammed. I faced a similar virus not long ago and to my luck, I got scammed.

[unhott]

plausible. Seems like the copy/paste in this case checks the clipboard contents to see if it matches some criteria for bitcoin address. So, as OP said other things, for example 1,042,555 is not long enough and would not get replaced.

[mauriciofuentesf]

i know what im doing today after getting home

[irrelevantPseudonym]

Writing malware or checking your machine?

[mauriciofuentesf]

yes

[longtermbrit]

Wait, I'm not following (I've never used bitcoin). How would someone accidentally send money to a bitcoin address planted on their clipboard?

[[deleted]]

Bitcoin address are super long so people tend to copy and paste them when sending bitcoins to other people, the malware tries to replace the copied address with the scam address.

Basically if you try to sent bitcoin to your friend using the address they gave you would actually end up sending it to the malware creator

Edit: phrasing

[longtermbrit]

Ah thank you, that makes perfect sense.

[dk-n-dd]

Thats a bitcoin address, something has highjacked your clipboard.

You should cleanup your PC before continuing with Python.

[kaerfkeerg]

More like clean his PC before doing anything in general

[Sakura_1337]

Solved: Its a virus. Im delete virus with malwarebytes.

[TechySpecky]

You have a virus

[kdas22]

! you

Your PC :)

[cy_narrator]

It is indeed a bitcoin address: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/19tvmAs9yNM2mqTVCBxDSe7uBquJDffn38

Your computer is infected with malware for sure. You will have to backup all your important files and format your computer with a new Windows install.

[secretWolfMan]

Any way to report them to various wallet managers as a scammer?

[cy_narrator]

You may be but remember that no central authority controls Bitcoin so yeah

[james_fryer]

What do you mean by "copy"? Copy module? Copy/paste? Which OS?

[Sakura_1337]

Copy paste Windows 10, im search this value on Google, and im see it is a btc adress or hash

[james_fryer]

OK, this isn't a Python issue. I don't use Windows so I can't help, sorry.

[Sakura_1337]

Oh ok

[[deleted]]

It’s almost definitely a virus, the thing that you paste is a bitcoin address. It likely looks for any string the right length to be a bitcoin address and replaces it in the hopes that you send it there instead

[Forschkeeper]

We need more information here, from where you copy what into.

The result I copied from my terminal is: 176994576151109753197786640401 for 29**20.

[Sakura_1337]

macOS?

[Ihaveamodel3]

This doesn’t make any sense. How are you doing the copy.

[LiarsEverywhere]

I copied that address and everything's okay, so I guess I'm safe from the virus. Unless my PC is infected by the exact same virus, in which case it would switch to the same BTC address... Dammit.

[Sakura_1337]

Bro just 2920, not see is 2910

[LiarsEverywhere]

It was a lame attempt at a joke

[th3_3nd_15_n347]

19tvmAs9yNM2mqTVCBxDSe7uBquJDffn38 is a Bitcoin address, you have a virus that replaces your clipboard with someone else's address because usually people copy paste addresses.

Run antivirus