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> You could be asked to sign a message provided to you by the government. That would be enough. That would only link you to one particular address. Modern wal
by wcoenen 5y ago
> You could be asked to sign a message provided to you by the government. That would be enough.
That would only link you to one particular address.
Modern wallets are typically "hierarchical deterministic" as described in BIP32[1]. They generate new keys/addresses from a seed value as needed. To properly register such a wallet, you would have to provide the root public key from which all addresses can be derived (but not private keys).
[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0032 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0032