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Re: Tool or method for finding public key of Bitcoin address
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release
on 29/12/2020, 12:16:01 UTC
I actually posted[1] about this a few days back I think.

So the format of P2PKH sigscript is the signature followed by the public key. So basically, extract the sigscript, identify the signature and there should be a OP_Pushbytes_65 (since we're talking about uncompressed) which is 41 in hex. You should get the public key pertaining to that specific address.


You can probably write a script to separate and identify the public key pretty easily.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5302887.msg55912788#msg55912788

Ok I get that but the full  public key is 130 characters. Is it the first 65 (X value)