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Re: The case for moving from a 160 bit to a 256 bit Bitcoin address
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jonald_fyookball
on 01/05/2017, 15:58:27 UTC
Quote from: dinofelis on May 01, 2017, 03:01:05 PM

I always wondered why Satoshi applied Ripemd-160 after SHA-256 for the address, that seemed inconsistent to me. 


Seems like a good post here on that: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9202/why-does-bitcoin-use-two-hash-functions-sha-256-and-ripemd-160-to-create-an-ad