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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: How to generate Bitcoin Address?
by
Stevets
on 09/03/2014, 16:39:11 UTC
The public key is the number of the vault

public key =/= bitcoin address

Right. And the private key is not the combination to the lock on a vault. As I said it is a stupid oversimplification. Since the address is based on the public key, I stand by my "Bitcoin For Dummies in 100 Words Or Less"  Grin