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Old wallets can be huge, tens of thousands of receiving addresses large. Most aren't even displayed to the client (change addresses).
by nwh 13y ago
Old wallets can be huge, tens of thousands of receiving addresses large. Most aren't even displayed to the client (change addresses).
- gojomo 13y agoAnd maybe if they'd tried to be clever, with custom "high-security" key-generation/key-splitting tricks, but actually wound up being stupid, without good records of public-addresses... then reconstructing the public-addresses for lookup could be just as hard as reconstructing the private-keys. Of course we're in wild-speculation territory but it's an interesting creative extreme-scenario exercise.