Bitcoin turned 10 years old, and they all write instructions on how addresses are generated and even manage to get lost in terminology. For whom is this article? What is new in this information that the sectarians merited it together? How many more years does the community intend to chew on the ABC book?
Bitcoin is 11 years old not 10 and it is still Bitcoin that is that old not the newcomers who keep coming along every day! posts like this are giving them a simple look under the hood and if they weren't created here i assure you that most newcomers would never even see it elsewhere even though there are already many
better instructions such as Mastering Bitcoin by A.A.
It is unfortunate that the technically illiterate article has earned so many Merits in the English-language part of the forum. Degradation is evident.
it may contain some small mistakes here and there and may not be as well versed as what experts have written but it is far from being "technically illiterate".
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However, the author’s phrase:
This is the P2PKH format of public key. It is widely used for sending/receiving bitcoins. There are various rounds of different hashing algorithm involved to generate P2PKH key from hex of public key.
confirms my idea that the author has a terminological mess in his head about addresses and public keys.
Instead of the word
address, the author uses the non-existent term
P2PKH key, which misleads the reader.
if we are going to nitpick then we should do it correctly!
first of all the full text that should have been quoted is this:
1) [18J6ai34uzGofUuzbiwhXJzKzdx1efDBqA] Public Address: This is the P2PKH format of public key.which makes it a lot more accurate. not to mention that the word "address" is already there!
secondly the word is not "address", the correct term is "script" since P2PKH is a script type not an address type, the term "address" is commonly used in its place to simplify it but since it is a nitpicking as i said the nit should be accurate itself!
