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Title: How can we tell if a Bitcoin public address is in a Bitcoin Core Desktop Wallet? Post by: Some Guy: on August 24, 2018, 11:51:22 AM How can we tell if a Bitcoin public address is for a wallet in the Bitcoin Core Desktop Wallet program?
Title: Re: How can we tell if a Bitcoin public address is in a Bitcoin Core Desktop Wallet? Post by: OmegaStarScream on August 24, 2018, 02:48:50 PM I believe you can't. As far as I know, addresses are generated the same way, except for the randomness part maybe.
Title: Re: How can we tell if a Bitcoin public address is in a Bitcoin Core Desktop Wallet? Post by: BrewMaster on August 24, 2018, 03:02:52 PM bitcoin core like any other wallet program is creating a "bitcoin address" and that has a clear definition. it is simply hash of a public key with a specific formatting that makes the result be a string starting with 1, 3 or bc1. it doesn't matter what the wallet program is, they all do the same encoding.
imagine it like this: you have a number that you want to represent. you have many ways. decimal: 255 binary: 11111111 hexadeciman: FF Base58: 5Q Base58 with checksum: VrZDWwe and this last way of encoding is what the bitcoin address version 1 uses. and it is shared among all the different implementation of bitcoin protocol including bitcoin core, Armory, Electrum, blockchain.info,... |