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Author Topic: 51 characters base58 or 52 characters base58?  (Read 489 times)
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May 15, 2013, 06:25:19 PM
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Does it really matter how one stores their private keys on paper wallets?  Mine are recorded in 52 characters base58 (beginning with "K" or "L") currently as that's what Bitcoin-Qt gave me with the dumpprivkey command.  I noticed some of the great web-based paper wallet generators like the beauties at bitcoinpaperwallet.com come out in 51 characters base58 (beginning with "5").  They are both considered as being in WIF format?  Is there a difference in functionality for the purposes of importing them for use?  In the event I wanted to use the coin on one of my paper wallets, would my 52 character private key be easily imported into any client or web-based wallet?  Thank-you

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