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Probability of Generating a Bitcoin Address with Specific Starting and Ending Characters
I've recently come across a situation where scammers are generating (bitcoin) addresses that have the same starting and ending characters. This is concerning as many people, including myself, often ...
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How can I manually (on paper) calculate a Bitcoin public key from a private key?
I am interested in generating a Bitcoin address by hand for security's sake. After I choose/generate a private key, how do I generate the public key?
From there, how would I double check my work?
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Is a bitcoin address collision possible if generating 90 million addresses every 4 hours?
I am running a test to see if I can obtain a successful bitcoin address collision after generating billions of addresses. I am not entirely sure how I would check them yet. Basically I have an extra ...
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Would it be possible for an 8-bit microprocessor to create a bitcoin keypair?
Context for question: With the latest security breaches around modern CPU's (Spectre / Meltdown) I was wondering if we could generate ECDSA keypairs on cheap, small and/or simple air gapped (micro)...
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Is it possible to discover the set of bitcoin addresses from a public key?
I'm trying to find the set of bitcoin addresses from a public key associated with a user just to analyse this user transaction. Is there any way to derive/find all the addresses that have been ...
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Is it possible to use a PGP key as a bitcoin address?
Both bitcoin and encrypted emailing are based on public key cryptography. However, they use different implementations, so I assume that a public PGP key cannot be used as a bitcoin address directly.
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