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Re: Address without public key and private key?
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nc50lc
on 01/03/2025, 03:16:44 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (4) ,ABCbits (3)
I saw that you also posted this on the "Puzzle transaction thread", what is the mail goal for asking this so people can give you better answers?
If it's simply creating an address without a pubKey or prvKey, then as others' have said: Yes.
If there's more to it, then please expand the question.

In fact, you can just use RNG to generate a pseudo-random 160-bit number, prepend with 0x00 and append with 0x01 then "base58check" encode that, and you got a compressed legacy address.
You can skip all those steps in your script and you'll still be able to generate an address.