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Bitcoin Q&A: Public keys vs. addresses


What is the distinction between public keys and addresses? How are new addresses generated? How are change addresses generated? Why have two outputs? Do you continue to pay charges in case you are sending bitcoin to new addresses in your personal pockets? What is the VanityGen command? What does the SIG_HASH flag do?

These questions are from the MOOC 9.three and 9.5 classes which occurred on March 2nd and March 16th, 2018 respectively. Andreas is a educating fellow with the University of Nicosia. The first course of their Master of Science in Digital Currency diploma, DFIN-511: Introduction to Digital Currencies, is obtainable at no cost as an open enrollment MOOC course to anybody involved in studying in regards to the basic rules.

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RELATED: Advanced Bitcoin Scripting Part 1: Transactions and Multi-sig – https://youtu.be/8FeAXjkmDcQ Advanced Bitcoin Scripting Part 2: SegWit, Consensus, and Trustware – https://youtu.be/pQbeBduVQ4I Reusing addresses – https://youtu.be/4A3urPFkx8g Airdrop cash and privateness implications – https://youtu.be/JHRnqJJ0rhc Wealth distribution statistics – https://youtu.be/X2Qsz4eaSPY Mixing providers – https://youtu.be/rKoMvOH4zoY How do mnemonic seeds work? – https://youtu.be/wWCIQFNf_8g Using paper wallets – https://youtu.be/cKehFazo8Pw What is Segregated Witness? – https://youtu.be/dtOjjB4mD8k Spam transactions and Child Pays For Parent (CPFP) – https://youtu.be/t3c0E4fkSNs

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has turn into some of the well-known and revered figures in bitcoin.

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He is the creator of two books: “Mastering Bitcoin,” printed by O’Reilly Media and regarded the most effective technical information to bitcoin; “The Internet of Money,” a ebook about why bitcoin issues.

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