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This doesn't seem like a trivial operation to me (ie. it can't reasonably

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be done by humans on paper).
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Richard Kiss 2014-07-01 16:46:12 -07:00
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ When spending bitcoins, the current bitcoin owner presents their public key and
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In most implementations, the private and public keys are stored together as a _key pair_ for convenience. However, it is trivial to reproduce the public key if one has the private key, so storing only the private key is also possible.
In most implementations, the private and public keys are stored together as a _key pair_ for convenience. However, the public key can be calculated from the private key, so it's possible to storing only the private key.
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==== Private and Public Keys