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Re: How can you verify if a bitcoin is real?
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sungaiyangderas
on 03/06/2018, 08:38:44 UTC
The point is that you do not encrypt anything with public key cryptography in bitcoin, just for signing only. When you send bitcoins, you sign a transaction that says which public key (address) can send these coins in the future, this transaction then validated by the entire network and the miner adds it into the block.