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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Addresses start with capitals/numbers?
by
DannyHamilton
on 26/03/2021, 18:55:55 UTC
This got me curious: . . . these are the shortest Bitcoin addresses ever funded:
Code:
14  bc1zqyqsywvzqe

I probably should have specified legacy addresses.  Clearly SegWit plays by different rules.

. . . 32 characters looks like the current limit to have been created from a private key.

Each character dropped SIGNIFICANTLY decreases the odds of it being randomly generated from a private key.