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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: compressed and uncompressed addresses
by
Charles-Tim
on 04/02/2024, 20:35:22 UTC
You are referring about legacy bitcoin address. Addresses that start from 1.

For normal, its public key will start from 04 while its private key will start from 5.
For compressed, it's public key start from 02 or 03 while its private key starts from K or L.