A Practical Guide to Bitcoin Addresses

What occurs in practice when users send and receive bitcoin to different addresses? Control of bitcoin changes from one set of private keys to another. Wallets do not contain any funds, strictly speaking; Bitcoin wallets generate and manage a user’s public and private keys – and, by extension, addresses. Native SegWit Bech32 «Pay-to-witness-public-key-hash» (P2WPKH) addresses…(Continue Reading)