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Re: Missing 10 Characters in WIF Private Key - Can I recover them?
by
mynonce
on 30/12/2021, 22:33:52 UTC
SO I may have gotten lucky and found an old screenshot of wallet that contains a Hash160 address. That is the public key right? Please tell me I just got lucky and can use the kangaroo stuff above?

No, with that Hash160 address, you calculate your Bitcoin address.
For example : 1B2Q8vPm5E5b8yxaNWUW5ZfdCR5Zu1KMJn - is the public address

examples of public keys:

public key (uncompressed)
04b4632d08485ff1df2db55b9dafd23347d1c47a457072a1e87be26896549a87378ec38ff91d43e 8c2092ebda601780485263da089465619e0358a5c1be7ac91f4

public key (compressed)
02b4632d08485ff1df2db55b9dafd23347d1c47a457072a1e87be26896549a8737

or
03b4632d08485ff1df2db55b9dafd23347d1c47a457072a1e87be26896549a8737

they all start with 02, 03 or 04