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Title: A basic question about addresses Post by: Bungeebones on August 04, 2014, 02:40:56 PM Could an address work as either a testnet address or as a bitcoin address? Can they be interchanged just by changing the first character from a 1 to an N for example? I'm thinking that since they are always the same first character that the address must be the rest of it and the first character is just appended on to it? Right or wrong?
Thanks Title: Re: A basic question about addresses Post by: jl2012 on August 04, 2014, 03:38:02 PM Could an address work as either a testnet address or as a bitcoin address? Can they be interchanged just by changing the first character from a 1 to an N for example? I'm thinking that since they are always the same first character that the address must be the rest of it and the first character is just appended on to it? Right or wrong? Thanks No https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding Title: Re: A basic question about addresses Post by: DeathAndTaxes on August 04, 2014, 04:29:10 PM As jl2012 said the answer is no. The same keypair can be used on both networks but they will produce different addresses.
Code: key: b7b0dcb8cdca3f9a6377cb0f1f5942cec1b3c0f4d6d03dabceced635209aefe1 For obvious reasons please nobody use this example key for anything. Title: Re: A basic question about addresses Post by: Bungeebones on August 05, 2014, 03:35:41 PM Thanks
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