Questions tagged [p2pkh]
Pay-to-PubKey-Hash is the standard format for making payments on the Bitcoin network.
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How to calculate transaction size before sending (Legacy Non-Segwit - P2PKH/P2SH)
I know that I pay the transaction fee per kB, so how can I calculate how large the transaction will be before I send it via the RPC api. I run a site using bitcoins, and I cannot let the user's ...
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Why is P2PKH used instead of the simpler P2PK?
If elliptic curve cryptography is secure enough to be able to give away a public key without fear of anyone being able to calculate our private key from it, what's the reason for hashing our public ...
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How is Public Key extracted from (message, digital signature, address)
I'm under the impression that a public key is revealed when you sign a message.
Given these 3 inputs.
P2PKH Address, Digital Signature, Message.
Is the public key exposed?
If so, how do you extract ...
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How big is the input of a P2PKH transaction?
How many bytes does a P2PKH input have? I'm finding a few different numbers:
Why does the default miner implementation use pay-to-pubkey? states:
push + sig + push + key = 1 + 72 + 1 + 61 = 139
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How it is possible to validate existing Pay to Public Key Hash transaction without public key?
These are my understanding or assumptions.
Sign a document requires secret key and message only as below
SignDocument(secret key, message) => signature
And verification of signature requires ...
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Why doesn't address contain a full scriptPubKey?
This is a general question, but let's suppose a P2PKH transaction. P2PKH address starts with "1" and the sender incorporates it into the scriptPubKey as:
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 <PublicKeyHash> ...
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scriptcode, scriptsig, pubkeyscript confusion
I've been banging my head on a desk for a few days trying to understand the segwit protocol properly.
Another roadblock has thrown me off-guard and I am struggling to grasp the concept of "scriptCode:...
