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Destiner / blocksmith

Bitcoin/Ethereum key manipulation
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mismatch #2

Closed arshiay closed 6 years ago

arshiay commented 6 years ago

hi when i import private key to blockchain i receive different wallet address which i make by code why? for example private key is 5b9fa534aee8f01b8df4242bfd157e920e2b0e7cbd79afa541446aa426223b68 made by code wallet is 1PsUFe4kVUJixGEmA69fpWpBKdh2SZdwcY made by code

but after import to blockchain wallet address is 17BB2XwbhjUc8SYMSvvEkf2UWzpZuZFYvM

Destiner commented 6 years ago

Hi, thank you for the patience.

So, this is the same key, but in different forms. 1PsUFe4kVUJixGEmA69fpWpBKdh2SZdwcY is the long form and 17BB2XwbhjUc8SYMSvvEkf2UWzpZuZFYvM is short (or compressed) form.

You can use BitcoinWallet.generate_compressed_address to make this short version.