> That’s almost our public key, but not quite. We now encode (x, y) coordinates of our public point in hex ... Bitcoin supports "compressed" public keys in whi

> That’s almost our public key, but not quite. We now encode (x, y) coordinates of our public point in hex ... Bitcoin supports "compressed" public keys in which only the x-coordinate and the sign of the y- coordinate are present: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3059/what-is-a-compressed-bitcoin-key https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3059/what-is-a-c...