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It looks this discussion inspired you? :) https://github.com/supertestnet/p2pk_playground
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?
Government workers aren't fired for bad decisions. In worst case they will be moved to different position in the same or different government agency. To get fired you need either some bad criminal case against you or stop appearing at work (working itself is not so mandatory, more important is to be at office in time).
Address reuse for large amounts are especially bad and potentially dangerous from perspective of your own safety. As other party basically sees all your transaction history and current balance.
A Bitcoin address contains a checksum, so even if you change just a single character the address will be detected as invalid and sending to it not possible.
Yes, Bitcoin is not Ethereum, where they don't have checksums for addresses. Which bank account numbers have since 1960s (Luhn algorithm).
usual case is that there are far more injuries than deaths
Of course, here 10K number is injuries and deaths combined.