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Title: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: S4VV4S on April 15, 2014, 11:53:42 AM Like the title says, I thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1 until I saw this: http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/catalog/338378
Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: howzar on April 15, 2014, 11:56:10 AM I believe those are multi signature addresses.
Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: pandit on April 15, 2014, 11:56:17 AM i too thinking same :) all addrs will be from 1 ::)
Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: BitCoinDream on April 15, 2014, 11:57:56 AM Like the title says, I thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1 until I saw this: http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/catalog/338378 Quote A Bitcoin address, or simply address, is an identifier of 27-34 alphanumeric characters, beginning with the number 1 or 3, that represents a possible destination for a Bitcoin payment. Addresses can be generated at no cost by any user of Bitcoin. For example, using Bitcoin-Qt, one can click "New Address" and be assigned an address. It is also possible to get a Bitcoin address using an account at an exchange or online wallet service. An example of a Bitcoin address is 3J98t1WpEZ73CNmQviecrnyiWrnqRhWNLy. Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: S4VV4S on April 15, 2014, 12:05:57 PM Like the title says, I thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1 until I saw this: http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/catalog/338378 Quote A Bitcoin address, or simply address, is an identifier of 27-34 alphanumeric characters, beginning with the number 1 or 3, that represents a possible destination for a Bitcoin payment. Addresses can be generated at no cost by any user of Bitcoin. For example, using Bitcoin-Qt, one can click "New Address" and be assigned an address. It is also possible to get a Bitcoin address using an account at an exchange or online wallet service. An example of a Bitcoin address is 3J98t1WpEZ73CNmQviecrnyiWrnqRhWNLy. Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address OK, but this one starts with 2: http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/a/2mcBp5h1U41ARYXZ6EywGeyQcVdhYP7dFob Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: Meuh6879 on April 15, 2014, 12:14:49 PM other number is explain here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSA1pwlaypc
Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: S4VV4S on April 15, 2014, 12:16:38 PM other number is explain here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSA1pwlaypc And can someone explain why an address starts with a 2? Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: teukon on April 15, 2014, 12:24:19 PM The first character of an address is roughly the "type" of the address. Technically, if you unpack an address from its base58 form, the first byte will be the "version byte".
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes) And can someone explain why an address starts with a 2? Testnet script hash. Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: escrow.ms on April 15, 2014, 12:26:41 PM other number is explain here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSA1pwlaypc And can someone explain why an address starts with a 2? Look here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110051.msg1208997#msg1208997 There is a big list of these kind of address https://gist.github.com/sigmike/9295530 It doesn't matters which address you check, all will show same balance and same transaction id's. Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: safeminer on April 15, 2014, 12:28:13 PM It is a multi-signature address
Normal Public Key 1xxxxxx Multi-Sig Public Key 3xxxxxx Private Key 5xxxxxx Hope that helps Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: pandit on April 15, 2014, 12:38:54 PM It is a multi-signature address Normal Public Key 1xxxxxx Multi-Sig Public Key 3xxxxxx Private Key 5xxxxxx Hope that helps sorry :D what is Multi-Sig public key ? multiple private keys for same public key Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: S4VV4S on April 15, 2014, 12:44:37 PM Are the addresses that start with anything other than 1 or 3 valid?
And how are they created? Vanity? Title: Re: I Thought that all Bitcoin addresses started with a 1... ????? Post by: jparsley on April 15, 2014, 01:11:09 PM Script addresses start with 3
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