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Re: Bitcoin private key BASE58 problem
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sky59sky59
on 24/11/2021, 11:15:56 UTC
Alost sleeping but:  Embarrassed

I read somewhere that wallet address is the public key generated from private key:

34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo                               wallet address (richest in the world)
0523e522dfc6656a8fda3d47b4fa53f7585ac758cd7c0caa48         decoded wallet address

1P5ZEDWTKTFGxQjZphgWPQUpe554WKDfHQ
00f22f5563839ba6ba5aa8d3726fcbc675cb3e4c9e215b75ef

38UmuUqPCrFmQo4khkomQwZ4VbY2nZMJ67
054a782fe173a0b6718d39667b420d9c8b07e94262578fac8c


I know that public key for ecc secp256k1 is 64 bytes long, why then dcoded wallet has got only 25 bytes???