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What are the potential attacks against ECDSA that would be possablepossible if we used raw public keys as addresses?

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What are the potential attacks against ECDSA that would be possable if we used raw public keys as addresses?

According to this answer about why addresses are hashes rather than public keys there are potential attacks that are possible if you have the public key rather than the address, what are these attacks? If one was writing a cryptocurrency would you advise against the addresses being the public key encoded in base58 with a checksum on the end? why?