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Re: Vanity wallets on bitaddress.org/ compressed addresses on directory.io
by
Agnosticus
on 05/10/2017, 09:40:40 UTC
So each private key can ultimately produce two different addresses - one compressed and one uncompressed? And different private keys can produce the same address (i.e. there are 2^96 private keys for each address)?

From the web:
"A compressed key is just a way of storing a public key in fewer bytes (33 instead of 65). There are no compatibility or security issues because they are precisely the same keys, just stored in a different way. "

So they're the same keys but when hashed produce different addresses?