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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Odd or even?
by
batareyka
on 17/01/2022, 17:25:04 UTC
But form completely the same

Public key
HASH160
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The address compressed and uncompressed.
Not quite. The 296 private keys in question will produce 296 different public keys. It is the public keys which undergo RIPEMD-160 to produce the same output which will encode to the same address.

So different private keys, different public keys, same address.

The address compressed and uncompressed.
There is no reason that two private keys which give an address collision for their compressed public key would also give an address collision for their uncompressed public key, and vice versa.


Thanks for the explanation.