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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: bitcoin version 1, addresses space 2^160
by
HeRetiK
on 24/09/2019, 13:42:42 UTC
chose any public address with an output spent (must have at least one output transaction ) i will easy extract the public key  Grin

i learned this few hours ago Tongue

Yes, that's because outgoing transactions from P2PKH addresses need to publish the public key as well, otherwise no one could verify that the transaction is valid. That's not "extracting the public key" that's merely parsing public information.