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Author Topic: What’s the major difference between adresss and public key?  (Read 429 times)
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October 07, 2026, 11:24:18 PM
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Your explanation is more clearly and understandable but if you can show examples of all the differences, it will be better to understand the difference with screenshots and explanations. This is benefiting most of us here. Because I was also thinking that the address I displayed in this forum or the one I use in receiving coins is the address and I don't know where I can get the public key. For more understanding, expand it for us.


Actually, both of them are public keys; the standard one is the shortened version of the public key.

The public key is not widely used; you need to use the standard BTC address. Don't focus too much on long public keys unless you need them for something; they're supposed to not be shared with anyone. 

If you want some more explanation about this, the link is already shared above, or go here: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/keys/public-key/hash/

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October 07, 2026, 11:24:32 PM
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This topic has been discussed a lot in the past and you may be able to get your answers from that thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5499462.msg64193874#msg64193874

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5350111.msg57499874#msg57499874
I know this questions have been asked many times but if this is a genuine newbie, then allow him or her to express himself.

i guess moderator must have seen this and didn't delete it!! it has been a long time i saw a newbie ask this kind of question and personally i love real human discussion rather than those AI topics.
the catch: just allow the question of the op is genuine in due time he will learn form the correct sources you and others referenced.

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October 07, 2026, 11:34:06 PM
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Your explanation is more clearly and understandable but if you can show examples of all the differences, it will be better to understand the difference with screenshots and explanations. This is benefiting most of us here. Because I was also thinking that the address I displayed in this forum or the one I use in receiving coins is the address and I don't know where I can get the public key. For more understanding, expand it for us.]
There's no other address differet to the one you receive sats on, only the type of script can differ.

Use the link that Cricktor posted learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/script, go through the entire scripts, it covers enough including graphical data and tools that you can also use for testing out  what was explained on a script page.

The easiest way you can use to access your public key is to use a wallet that can derive it from your private key and display it to you.

Try Electrum, visit the address tab and double-click an address you should be able to access and copy its pub. key.
Apparently, the pub. key of an address of any script type is usually visible once you spend from it(some are visible before), and you can see that by visiting any transaction on any block explorer.

You can't be spoon-fed everything, you need to actually do alot of research your self and ask questions if you want to understand it better

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October 07, 2026, 11:35:35 PM
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As I've expected. This thread has been here for more than ten days and op got all the answers he was looking for, from the first comments. But for some reason, some members like to bump this thread (and the like) for no reason. Maybe, they just want to increase their post count!

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