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Ethereum does have checksums, they are just optional: https://cointelegraph.com/explained/ethereum-address-checksum-explained
Note that checksums are optional in bitcoin too, as sending directly to a pubkey is still a standard way to send money, at least at the protocol level; but it's not commonly supported by wallets, except in the case of taproot, where the common way to do that is to wrap it in a checksummed format anyway.
Ethereum does have checksums, they are just optional
Indeed! Don't follow it too much, was introduced at some point, but wasn't supported initially.
sending directly to a pubkey is still a standard way to send money
You mean P2PK? Who uses that nowadays?
You mean P2PK? Who uses that nowadays?
I'm not aware of any wallet that supports it except electrum, I think (I've never tested it). Taproot also uses a form of p2pk, though I'm not aware of any taproot-supporting wallet that lets you send to a "raw" pubkey; they all want it wrapped in the bc1p format, where there is a checksum.
It looks this discussion inspired you? :) https://github.com/supertestnet/p2pk_playground
yep!
Yes, Bitcoin is not Ethereum, where they don't have checksums for addresses. Which bank account numbers have since 1960s (Luhn algorithm).