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Some exchanges have 8 to start their wallets: Binance, Bitfinex, KuCoinhave wallet adresses starting with digit '8'. And the monero donate address starts with an 8, so saying they start with 4 might be confusing as alphatomcat said.
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terms: ["address", "addresses"]
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summary: "either an alias, such as donate.getmonero.org, or a set of 95 characters starting with a 4"
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{% include disclaimer.html translated="no" translationOutdated="no" %}
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### The Basics
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When you send Monero to someone you only need one piece of information, and that is their Monero address. A *raw* Monero address is a set of 95 characters starting with a '4' or an '8'. The Monero donation address, for instance, is 888tNkZrPN6JsEgekjMnABU4TBzc2Dt29EPAvkRxbANsAnjyPbb3iQ1YBRk1UXcdRsiKc9dhwMVgN5S9cQUiyoogDavup3H.
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Because those addresses are long and complex, you will often encounter an @OpenAlias address instead. For example, Monero donations can be sent to donate@getmonero.org or donate.getmonero.org.
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If you would like to get an @OpenAlias address of your own then there is some information on the [OpenAlias page](https://openalias.org/).
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### Integrated address
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An integrated address is an address combined with an encrypted 64-bit @payment-ID. A raw integrated address is 106 characters long.
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### In-depth Information
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The address is actually the concatenation, in Base58 format, of the *public* @spend-key and the *public* @view-key, prefixed with the network byte (the number 18 for Monero) and suffixed with the first four bytes of the Keccac-256 hash of the whole string (used as a checksum).
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