Base58 private keys (example: 5Kb8kLf9zgWQnogidDA76MzPL6TsZZY36hWXMssSzNydYXYB9KF) are case sensitive, since the different cases represent different bytes (A is 01000001, a is 01100001).
Hexadecimal private keys (example: 9873D79C6D87DC0FB6A5778633389F4453213303DA61F20BD67FC233AA33262) are not case sensitive (9873D79C... and 9873d79c... are the same exact key, since the letters are actually numbers 10 - 15)
Topic: are public keys case sensitive? (Read 1121 times)
It's case sensitive but if you mistyped you will not be able to send it. They will come back
Are private keys case sensitive?
if i was writing down my priv key would i need to make it case sensitive
if i was writing down my priv key would i need to make it case sensitive
The private key is a large number. It is up to you how you encode it. The usual WIF or BIP32 encodings are case sensitive.
This will probably answer the questions, but in general, yes:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_address
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
:-)
(Obviously since they are numbers you can print a key in binary, decimal, hex or other format and it would not be case sensitive, so it depends a lot on the encoding and how it is displayed, but for the default format the above covers it.)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_address
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
:-)
(Obviously since they are numbers you can print a key in binary, decimal, hex or other format and it would not be case sensitive, so it depends a lot on the encoding and how it is displayed, but for the default format the above covers it.)
Are private keys case sensitive?
if i was writing down my priv key would i need to make it case sensitive
if i was writing down my priv key would i need to make it case sensitive
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