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Recently many bitcoin transactions are P2SH (addresses starting with 3) and it that case the address is not directly linked to any public key at all (1-addresse
by dfox 9y ago
Recently many bitcoin transactions are P2SH (addresses starting with 3) and it that case the address is not directly linked to any public key at all (1-addresses are hashes of ECDSA public keys, 3-addresses are hashes of arbitrary bytecode which validates the signature and is supplied together with the signature)