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Re: Lost Bitcoins
by
DannyHamilton
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22/01/2014, 14:51:09 UTC
Quote from: Wilhelm on January 22, 2014, 01:28:38 PM
As I understand it:
The Bitcoin address is a sha-256 hash of the public key.
The bitcoin address is a base58check encoded RIPEMD-160 hash of a SHA-256 hash of the public key.