Topic: 51 characters base58 or 52 characters base58? (Read 491 times)
Does it really matter how one stores their private keys on paper wallets? Mine are recorded in 52 characters base58 (beginning with "K" or "L") currently as that's what Bitcoin-Qt gave me with the dumpprivkey command. I noticed some of the great web-based paper wallet generators like the beauties at bitcoinpaperwallet.com come out in 51 characters base58 (beginning with "5"). They are both considered as being in WIF format? Is there a difference in functionality for the purposes of importing them for use? In the event I wanted to use the coin on one of my paper wallets, would my 52 character private key be easily imported into any client or web-based wallet? Thank-you
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