i had a doubt from a long time ..............

[blackhat988]

i wanna know weather the public keys generated from one private key show same balance  in my wallet

assume that  X is a private key of my bitcoin wallet and X1 X2 X3.... are the public keys of the given private key

if i do a transaction of 1btc using the public key X1 and after the transaction the balance is 2.5 btc
later if i use the X2 public key in the blockchain.info website

will it show the same balance in my wallet as 2.5 btc or  it will show 0btc

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[aleksej996]

Again with you. Go learn about public keys and you will see that.
you can only have one private key for a public key.
But you really don't understand what you are talking about here.
You don't send bitcoins to a public key, you "send" it to an address.

Please give me one example of a private key generating multiple different public keys.
Are you maybe talking about a compressed and uncompressed addresses?

Your question makes no sense, go learn about Bitcoin addresses, here is one link https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address.

[bob123]

An address is a visualization of a Public Key.
Each Public Key has ONE correspondending private key ("which holds the BTC").
Your Wallet generates Public/private key pairs.
If you have 0.1 btc on 1 address and 0.2 on another.. then your Wallet shows Balance of 0.3 BTC.
On Block Explorer you can search for addresses...
So 1 will Show 0.1 and the other 0.2 BTC.

[pebwindkraft]

You don't send bitcoins to a public key, you "send" it to an address.

Please give me one example of a private key generating multiple different public keys.
Are you maybe talking about a compressed and uncompressed addresses?

After rereading his post, it comes to me that he might talk about the addresses he sees in a (HD) wallet. There you usually have one priv key, and a set of derived pubkeys.
Seeing that the post is from a fairly new member, giving him direction to bitcoin.org is surely the right way.

@blackhat988 - in short:
the addresses and wallets are effectivly representations of the data, so we as humans can easily grasp the idea and use case. A wallet is then a combination of only priv/pub keys. You need these keys to do transactions. Transactions have inputs and outputs, from which you can spend. The input usually came to you via a bitcoin address, that you once provided. The output is generated by your wallet software with the target address. When the transaction is confirmed, it is  saved in the blockchain.
And as Bob123 replied, each transaction detail can be seen, e.g. on blockchain.info, you can search for your address or your transaction number. This helps to clarify, along with bitcoin.org.

[achow101]

After rereading his post, it comes to me that he might talk about the addresses he sees in a (HD) wallet. There you usually have one priv key, and a set of derived pubkeys.

No, that's not true. With an HD wallet, you still have a private key and public key for every single address. All an HD wallet is is that you have a seed from which all over private keys in your wallet are derived. Addresses and public keys still work in the same way as randomly generated private keys.

[cr1776]

An address is a visualization of a Public Key.
Each Public Key has ONE correspondending private key ("which holds the BTC").
Your Wallet generates Public/private key pairs.
If you have 0.1 btc on 1 address and 0.2 on another.. then your Wallet shows Balance of 0.3 BTC.
On Block Explorer you can search for addresses...
So 1 will Show 0.1 and the other 0.2 BTC.

That is untrue.  Each P2PKH public key has on average 2⁹⁶ possible private keys.  In all likelihood you will only ever know 1 of them, but many more exist.

[achow101]

An address is a visualization of a Public Key.
Each Public Key has ONE correspondending private key ("which holds the BTC").

That is untrue.  Each P2PKH public key has on average 2⁹⁶ possible private keys.  In all likelihood you will only ever know 1 of them, but many more exist.

No, that statement is true. Each ADDRESS has on average 2⁹⁶. Each public key has exactly one private key and vice versa. Public keys and addresses are not the same thing.

[DannyHamilton]

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Each Public Key has ONE correspondending private key ("which holds the BTC").
Your Wallet generates Public/private key pairs.
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Each P2PKH public key has on average 2⁹⁶ possible private keys.  In all likelihood you will only ever know 1 of them, but many more exist.

You are both experiencing confusion because you have not agreed on a shared vocabulary.

bob123 is correct:
Each ECDSA public key computed with the Secp256k1 curve has exactly one private key.

cr1776 is correct:
Each base58check encoded P2PKH Bitcoin output script has on average 2⁹⁶ possible private keys (and 2⁹⁶ possible ECDSA public keys computed with the Secp256k1 curve), of which only one of each will ever be known.

To avoid the confusion, I suggest using the words "bitcoin address" when referring to the base58check encoded P2PKH Bitcoin output script, and using the words "public key" when referring to the ECDSA public key computed with the Secp256k1 curve.

[cr1776]

An address is a visualization of a Public Key.
Each Public Key has ONE correspondending private key ("which holds the BTC").

That is untrue.  Each P2PKH public key has on average 2⁹⁶ possible private keys.  In all likelihood you will only ever know 1 of them, but many more exist.

No, that statement is true. Each ADDRESS has on average 2⁹⁶. Each public key has exactly one private key and vice versa. Public keys and addresses are not the same thing.

I think there was a confusion of terminology 😀