Bitcoin SRC: vAlertPubKey - scriptPubKey

[bitsta]

hi,


i am just studying the sourcecode of different cryptocurrencies
and i saw this part in the code:

chainparams.cpp

Code:

vAlertPubKey = ParseHex("045337216002ca6a71d63edf062895417610a723d453e722bf4728996c58661cdac3d4dec5cecd449b9086e9602b35cc726a9e0163e1a4d40f521fbdaebb674658");

i also checked the headerfile and understood that this public key is used to sign broadcast messages..

what i don't understand is what kind of public key that is? it's a 128 Character key with leading 0x04 at beginning --> so total of 130 characters. If the public key used here is a public key linked to a BTC-address how did the developer integrate
that in the source?? did they first compiled the source/merkle/genesis hash, let the system run, generate an btc-address and afterwards included the public key in the source???

regards
bitsta

[Mike Hearn]

It's just a regular ECDSA public key. Nothing special about it at all.

[bitsta]

It's just a regular ECDSA public key. Nothing special about it at all.

thank you very much for the fast response.
now it s clear for me.