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May 25, 2018, 06:36:44 AM
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in chainparams.cpp, a public key is used to mine genesis block:

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048E794284AD7E4D776919BDA05CDD38447D89B436BDAF5F65EBE9D7AD3A0B084908B88162BB60B1AA5ED6542063A30FC9584A335F656A54CD9F66D6C742B67F55

How to generate similar public key using ecdsa library ?
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May 25, 2018, 06:53:20 AM
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found a helpful link

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/59644/how-do-these-openssl-commands-create-a-bitcoin-private-key-from-a-ecdsa-keypair/59646#59646
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May 29, 2018, 12:26:19 PM
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Quote from: victorkimba17 on May 25, 2018, 06:36:44 AM
in chainparams.cpp, a public key is used to mine genesis block:

Code:
048E794284AD7E4D776919BDA05CDD38447D89B436BDAF5F65EBE9D7AD3A0B084908B88162BB60B1AA5ED6542063A30FC9584A335F656A54CD9F66D6C742B67F55

How to generate similar public key using ecdsa library ?


echo "Generating BitCoin private key"
openssl ec -in $PRIVATE_KEY -outform DER|tail -c +8|head -c 32|xxd -p -c 32 > $BITCOIN_PRIVATE_KEY
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