Timeline for How are newly generated key-pairs kept unique to a single cryptocurrency?
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| Sep 23, 2022 at 9:53 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | Doesn't this sort of question and this imply that, at some time, BTC, BCH and LTC had compatible and indistinguishable addresses that were not unique to a specific cryptocurrency? | |
| Sep 23, 2022 at 2:35 | comment | added | kenta_desu | Thanks vm. And I assume that prefix is somehow pre-set before deployment of the coin or token? | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 17:03 | comment | added | Mike D | yes pretty much, you would add a prefix to differentiate your coin after hashing | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 16:12 | vote | accept | kenta_desu | ||
| Sep 22, 2022 at 15:35 | comment | added | kenta_desu | I see, so if a public/private key pair were generated via some wallet app, the public key would then be hashed using an algorithm specific to a cryptocurrency in order to create an address? | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 15:17 | history | answered | Mike D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |