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Baffled by endianness: How do I compute the HASH160 of the public key of a base58 address?
There should be no endianness issues here at all.
Bitcoin's handing of endianness is sometimes weird in its human interfaces (e.g. transaction and block hashes are printed in reverse order, because ...
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How does the bitcoin network use public and private keys when one wants to transfer funds?
what is the process that is actually happening under the hood when I click the 'transfer Bitcoin' button of my wallet in terms of the keys?
Your wallet selects from available coins (UTXOs for which ...
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