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@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ image::images/mbc3_0407.png["pubkey_to_address"]
//https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2011-November/000778.html
When Bitcoin was first authored, its developers only knew how to create
When ((("public key cryptography", "compressed public keys", id="pub-key-compress")))((("compressed public keys", id="compress-pub-key")))((("uncompressed public keys", id="uncompress-pub-key")))Bitcoin was first authored, its developers only knew how to create
65-byte public keys. However, a later developer became aware of an
alternative encoding for public keys that used only 33 bytes and which
was backward compatible with all Bitcoin full nodes at the time,
@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ to scan for the correct type can lead to the user not being able to
spend their full balance. To resolve this issue, when private keys are
exported from a wallet, the WIF that is used to
represent them is implemented slightly differently in newer Bitcoin
wallets, to indicate that these private keys have been used to produce
wallets, to indicate that these private keys have been used to produce((("public key cryptography", "compressed public keys", startref="pub-key-compress")))((("compressed public keys", startref="compress-pub-key")))((("uncompressed public keys", startref="uncompress-pub-key")))
compressed public keys.
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