It's because you are hashing the ASCII representation of the pubkey. You need to convert it to binary and hash that(i.e hex2bin). Trust me, happened to me too.
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Thanks! That did it
It's because you are hashing the ASCII representation of the pubkey. You need to convert it to binary and hash that(i.e hex2bin). Trust me, happened to me too.
Wouldn't you want to do base_convert()? 
That happens to a lot of people!
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It's because you are hashing the ASCII representation of the pubkey. You need to convert it to binary and hash that(i.e hex2bin). Trust me, happened to me too.
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gives me 32511e82d56dcea68eb774094e25bab0f8bdd9bc1eca1ceeda38c7a43aceddce
but https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses
indicates it should be 600FFE422B4E00731A59557A5CCA46CC183944191006324A447BDB2D98D4B408
If it was just the lower case instead of upper I wouldn't care, but what's going on?
Is it because the php hash function is treating it as a string instead of a hex number?
Code:
$pubKey="0450863AD64A87AE8A2FE83C1AF1A8403CB53F53E486D8511DAD8A04887E5B23522CD470243453A299FA9E77237716103ABC11A1DF38855ED6F2EE187E9C582BA6";
$stepTwo=hash('sha256',$pubKey);
die($stepTwo);
?>
gives me 32511e82d56dcea68eb774094e25bab0f8bdd9bc1eca1ceeda38c7a43aceddce
but https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses
indicates it should be 600FFE422B4E00731A59557A5CCA46CC183944191006324A447BDB2D98D4B408
If it was just the lower case instead of upper I wouldn't care, but what's going on?
Is it because the php hash function is treating it as a string instead of a hex number?
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