Transfer ownership of a Pubkey to a new owner.

Abdussamad

legendary

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Of course it's possible. It's the same as sending someone a message. It's just not secure because I too have a copy of the key pair and it'll be a race to see who can move the coins first. Private keys are called private for a reason. You don't share them!

Now if I can somehow prove to you that I don't have another copy of the private key then it will be secure. Being able to prove you don't know something is very hard though

Opendime came up with a concept around it that relies on hardware features. But I'm sure someone will come up with a way to crack an opendime without it being apparent that he has done so.

Another concept is to lock the coins in a multisig address and exchange unsigned transactions with the other party. This is the idea behind lightning.

jcb01

newbie

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I imagined there would be some way to trade pubkey ownsership.From the discussions above it's clear it's not possible.
Thank you everyone for the response!

pooya87

legendary

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public key is not a stand alone thing to transfer to someone else. it is the second (and public) part of a duo in the asymmetric cryptography scheme. private and public keys are inseparable so you can only generate a public key from that private key.

Quote from: jcb01 on January 30, 2020, 04:07:06 AM

This way i can transfer ownershuip a Public Key A using it's priv. key A to the owner of Pubkey B. So the Privkey B owner is also the owner of PubKey A.

even if it was possible you still have to provide a mechanism and some sort of proof (like signatures that are already in use) to prove the ownership change. so there is no difference here.

jackg

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https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

I think it would be very restrictive doing it that way but that is somewhat the basis of a smart contract (loosely). Instead of owning and signing the funds you own the contract for the funds (where one applies).

jcb01

newbie

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From the basic understanding of bitcoin,
it involves a locking script and an redeem script( a owner of particular pubkey can unlock with his priv key if he produces a valid signature)
My question/thought is:
Can it be possible to have a Blockchain ledger with public key as the commodity(with locking and unlocking script)
This way i can transfer ownershuip a Public Key A using it's priv. key A to the owner of Pubkey B. So the Privkey B owner is also the owner of PubKey A.

i was thinking like this because it can make Bitcoin more anonymous.However i have no technical knowledge and would like to see if my analysis/thinking is wrong.
Thanks!

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