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Re: Question regarding links between oldish bitcoin addresses and segwit ones
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Psycopyro
on 11/09/2021, 19:19:30 UTC
Thanks for your answers,

It's clear now, I have found additionals informations here regarding private keys, and compressed/uncompressed private key.

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif

But an answer call another question!

As I understood, an private key starting with 5, give a legacy address only, and also give an uncompressed adress. Obviously the public key generated by my 5xxx private key gave me a compressed key, probably compressed for ease of use.

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Compression Byte suffix (optional) - Indicates if the private key is used to create a compressed public key.


Is there a way to find out our uncompressed key and perform send a transaction, just for science ?


Same question with private key starting with L or K


I think we don't speak about the same freewallet, I use the https://freewallet.io/ counterparty one.