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Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: same public key
by
DannyHamilton
on 01/07/2013, 23:56:47 UTC
Or did I get something wrong here?

Yes, you did.

The results of generating the same address or the same private key are exactly the same.  In either case you can spend any bitcoins that exist in an unspent output that requires a signature from a valid private key.