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Is it possible to create a valid adress without the private key?
Topic: Public Adresses - when do they start to exist? (The art of coin destruction) - page 2. (Read 1556 times)
April 25, 2014, 01:44:48 PM
April 25, 2014, 01:41:49 PM
Something I don't understand:
If I create I a brainwallet, I receive a public adress. Do I write the adress with this act into the blockchain (how??), or was the public adress there, before I created the brainwallet? Is every public adress availible to receive bitcoins, cause there's a limitation in possible public adresses, which can be calculated with the private key, so that it's impossible to type a valid public adress by randomly tipping?
(and do miner something like finding randomly public adresses?)
If I create I a brainwallet, I receive a public adress. Do I write the adress with this act into the blockchain (how??), or was the public adress there, before I created the brainwallet? Is every public adress availible to receive bitcoins, cause there's a limitation in possible public adresses, which can be calculated with the private key, so that it's impossible to type a valid public adress by randomly tipping?
(and do miner something like finding randomly public adresses?)
Simply speaking, all integers from 0 to 2^160-1 are valid bitcoin addresses. You can send bitcoin to any of these addresses. Miners don't know and don't care whether there is a corresponding private key for such address, until someone tries to spend.
(Read more at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses . For example, my donation address 1CiZPrEJdN4FJcqdLdgVLzT8tgCXxT5ion is equivalent to the hexadecimal number 80857aaa19a17c0ef98fe525316ce131492a5c40)
April 25, 2014, 01:21:20 PM
Something I don't understand:
If I create I a brainwallet, I receive a public adress. Do I write the adress with this act into the blockchain (how??), or was the public adress there, before I created the brainwallet? Is every public adress availible to receive bitcoins, cause there's a limitation in possible public adresses, which can be calculated with the private key, so that it's impossible to type a valid public adress by randomly tipping?
(and do miner something like finding randomly public adresses?)
If I create I a brainwallet, I receive a public adress. Do I write the adress with this act into the blockchain (how??), or was the public adress there, before I created the brainwallet? Is every public adress availible to receive bitcoins, cause there's a limitation in possible public adresses, which can be calculated with the private key, so that it's impossible to type a valid public adress by randomly tipping?
(and do miner something like finding randomly public adresses?)
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