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Re: How do bitcoin addrss be too long?
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btc78
on 01/07/2024, 02:57:30 UTC
This  is a bitcoin aadress with balance

bc1peyr986nrj2f0w5a69jl496j4svdc03f64z0agke8kqyq6lhne6psgxk7hf

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1peyr986nrj2f0w5a69jl496j4svdc03f64z0agke8kqyq6lhne6psgxk7hf


How do bitcoin addrss be too long?
This is because bitcoin addresses are not just randomly generated but has a code that it follows. This address is a has of the public key and is encoded with base58. The addresses also differ in length or prefixes depending on what kind of address that is.

Since this has ‘bc1’ at the start, it’s most likely a segwit address.