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by cipherzero 4484 days ago
I'm really don't know much about the technical details of bitcoin, but why is a bitcoin address tied to a specific key pair?

Why isn't the address+balance just signed with a key pair?

That way me knowing a key pair wouldn't get me an address with a balance in it...

is there something i'm missing?

EDIT: I guess it doesn't matter, since the address space is so large. Either way, if i were targeting an account, i would know what key pair to attack..

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An address is essentially just the public half of a key pair.