Linked Questions

I understand the high level concept I am more interested specific details. How is a private key generated. How exactly is public key generated, how is address generated from public key.

I am wondering if you can explain this. I went here: https://coinb.in/#newSegWit Created the SegWit Address below: 3ASaGJ8h2bLn6Jha3hncBzXUKRCLyfv9bk RedeemScript ...

I have read that private key is 256 bits or 32 byte. see here I generated a key on bitcoin-test network. WIF: cVe4tA6QHduboeSiQD6Y6nzV1QjaVpDVG2YHbqbtJiSCxsNDYYUF HEX: ...

I created wallet in BitPay. I have public and private keys. Then I created wallet in Electrum using existing private key. Now wallet in electrum has other public key than in BitPay but the same ...

I already have a an address with Bitcoin and would like to generate a receive address using SHA256 hash which is based on a string. I've found an example of creating an address using a SHA256 hash: ...

I have a bitcoin private key and know that it can output a segwit addresses of bech32 bc1... and p2sh 3... formats. How can this be done easily?

I need to derive public key from my private key in uncompressed form. I know how to create compressed one with libbitcoin, but I can't find appropriate method for uncompressed form there. Are there ...

Why in some transactions the public key after R and S is longer 33 bytes and in others is 65 bytes? There's a difference during the signature check? Thanks

How to find bitcoin address from bitcoin privatekey using bitcoind json rpc or any other way?

Bitcoin addresses start with 1. Multisig/Script addresses start with 3. Other forks of bitcoin have single letters that are different at the beginning. Is this letter simply and only prepended to the ...