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Re: spend P2SH redeem script
by
DaveF
on 07/06/2023, 20:24:17 UTC
This address (39QWbnkbcPFcrJFEB6yvVDc12eX5zqVt3y) doesn't have a private key though: It has an unlocking script, the details of which I've given above. The private key needed in the script is the one belonging to the uncompressed public key in the script, which leads to the address 1PE3udPhhcSP4RAkVVuTPwQrGidVtkcaA4.

If you try to sell someone that private key, they will see an empty (although previously used) address. To lead them to the given address you'd need to first teach them about scripting. And if they can understand the script well enough to generate the given address, then they'll see through the scam.


I was leaving out the step of faking a wallet with that address in it, like the 'password protected' ones, just doing it differently. Thought it was implied. It's a look I messed up and can't get to these coins since they are time-locked, here is a script here is a wallet with the address in there. (What you can't read my mind....)

Anyway I think this particular scam has been outed, at least for now.

-Dave