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JavaScript Client-Side Bitcoin Wallet Generator
https://www.bitaddress.org
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Remove uncompress public key option #130

Open inaltoasinistra opened 8 years ago

inaltoasinistra commented 8 years ago

Is there any reason to generate address with uncompressed public key yet? If there are wallets that does not support compressed public keys they should be updated.

ByronAP commented 7 years ago

Many other platforms use this tool not just BTC and take uncompressed keys.

inaltoasinistra commented 7 years ago

For example?

ByronAP commented 7 years ago

bitshares, steem, anything else based on graphene

oinkBob commented 7 years ago

also trustless vanitygen, you get the publicKey from a user and bruteforce from that point on the curve. afaik vanitygen/oclvanitygen accepts a uncompressed pubKey.