Posts tagged private key
It a previous series of posts, we figured out how to derive a Bitcoin public address from a private key. What should we do with this new knowledge? Let’s generate a bunch of addresses! Specifically, we’ll create a “vanity” address generator.
In previous posts, we figured out how to compute a Bitcoin address from a private key and we tested our code with an example from the Bitcoin wiki. In this post we try to convert a private key from a real wallet (MultiBit) to its corresponding address.
I’ve been wondering how Bitcoin addresses are generated. This post and the ones following will explore, step by step, how to transform a Bitcoin private key to a public address.
I know that Bitcoin public and private keys are Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) key pairs, and I’ve seen the Q = dG
explanation on a few sites, but they leave out some details. I want to experiment for myself, so this post describes how to derive a public key from a private key with runnable code.