Conversion from ECDSA public key to Bitcoin AddressThis article may be too technical for some users. The more basic article on Bitcoin Addresses may be more appropriate.| en.bitcoin.it
Blockchain-based currencies use encoded strings, which are in a Base58Check encoding with the exception of Bech32 encodings. The encoding includes a prefix (traditionally a single version byte), which affects the leading symbol(s) in the encoded result. The following is a list of some prefixes which are in use in the reference Bitcoin codebase.[1][2][3]| en.bitcoin.it
This article describes the operation of OP_CHECKSIG in non-segwit scripts. The hash digest for OP_CHECKSIG, OP_CHECKSIGVERIFY, OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY in segwit scripts is calculated differently, as described in BIP 143.| en.bitcoin.it
On August 15 2010, it was discovered that block 74638 contained a transaction that created 184,467,440,737.09551616 bitcoins for three different addresses.[1][2][3]| en.bitcoin.it