bitcoin-address

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There are currently three address formats in use:
P2PKH which begin with the number 1, eg: 1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7xJaNVN2.
P2SH type starting with the number 3, eg: 3J98t1WpEZ73CNmQviecrnyiWrnqRhWNLy.
Bech32 type starting with bc1, eg: bc1qar0srrr7xfkvy5l643lydnw9re59gtzzwf5mdq.

Address reuse

Addresses are not intended to be used more than once, and doing so has numerous problems associated. See the dedicated article on address reuse for more details.

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List of address prefixes

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Conversion from ECDSA public key to Bitcoin address

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