Is the address of bitcoin a public key
1. The mail cabinet is stolen (the database is stolen)
2. The key is stolen (the private key is stolen)
3. Knowing my home address (the public key is stolen), the lock of the mail cabinet is opened violently (the private key is cracked violently).
there are basically two kinds of attacks, one is dictionary attack, the other is brute force attack
dictionary attack is to use common passwords and their simple variants as keys one by one. As long as your pass phrase is not hard enough, the possibility of successful attack is very high. So if you want to use this, you need to popularize the knowledge of cryptography first, and don't think it's very safe to add a long password
if you don't use the wallet generated by pass phrase, you can only crack it violently, which is equivalent to enumerating all the possible keys. At present, this is impossible, even if the electronic computer is becoming more and more powerful. However, quantum computer can do it theoretically, but don't worry too much. If such a powerful quantum computer comes out, it will not only endanger bitcoin
at the same time, bitcoin has a second layer of protection: if an address only accepts bitcoin but does not output it, its public key is confidential, that is to say, no one else can see the box, only the box number. At present, the process of decing the box from the box number can't even be done by quantum computer. In other words, if there is a quantum computer, bitcoin has a last line of Defense: it's temporarily safe to transfer your money to a new address
finally, some time ago, the wallet generated by the Android client was attacked because of a bug in the underlying random number generator. In fact, this function is not random securerandom, which Google quickly admitted and fixed. It's hard to say whether this kind of thing will happen again, but I don't think we need to worry too much.
How are bitcoin addresses and private keys generated? Bitcoin uses elliptic curve algorithm to generate public key and private key, and chooses secp256k1 curve. The generated public key is a 33 byte large number, and the private key is a 32 byte large number. The wallet file wallet.dat directly stores the public key and private key. The bitcoin address we use when receiving and sending bitcoin is obtained after the public key is processed by the algorithm. The specific process is that the public key is first processed by SHA-256 algorithm to get 32 byte hash result, then processed by ripemed algorithm to get 20 byte summary result, and then the address we see is obtained through the character conversion process. This character conversion process is the same as that of the private key. The steps are as follows: first, add the version number to the input content (the summary result of 20 bytes for the public key and the large number of 32 bytes for the private key). After two successive SHA-256 algorithms, take the first 4 bytes of the hash result of the last time as the check code and attach it to the back of the input content, and then encode it with base58, Get the string{ RRRRR}
First of all, you should imagine a concept of "wallet" in your brain. Your bitcoin is in your wallet. A wallet can contain many... Many addresses. The form of the address is the form
with the bitcoin address generated in the bitcoin wallet, you can receive bitcoin from others, and you can also transfer the bitcoin in your account to the bitcoin address of others. Bitcoin address, like bank card number, has the functions of payment, transfer and withdrawal. However, when transferring money, you can only transfer money by knowing someone else's bitcoin address
if we simply compare a bitcoin wallet to a bank card account, then the address of the bitcoin wallet can be regarded as a bank card account number. The difference is that bitcoin addresses can not be stored on the network, but also exist independently of your wallet
bitcoin address is a string of 26 to 34 letters and numbers. It looks like a lot of messy code. To put it bluntly, it's just like your bank card number. All transfer records of each bitcoin address can be checked through blockchain query, which is open and transparent
address generation of bitcoin Wallet: 256 binary digits are randomly selected to form the private key, and then the address is generated by encryption function. This generation direction is unidirectional. That is, you know that the address cannot be decrypted to calculate the private key. At present, the computing power of human computer can't be cracked, so you can publish the address on the Internet with ease
reference link: bitcoin | network
1. The mail cabinet is stolen (the database is stolen)
2. The key is stolen (the private key is stolen)
3. Knowing my home address (the public key is stolen), the mail cabinet lock is opened violently (the private key is cracked violently).
1. Who benefits the most from researching and hyping bitcoin
2. In essence, it's USA's Intel, NVIDIA, amd + ATI
3. Bitcoin requires a huge amount of CPU, GPU, memory, motherboard, power supply, wire and venue
4. Since the speculation of bitcoin, the sales of CPU, GPU, memory, motherboard, power supply and wire are the highest
5. It's the CPU and GPU instry of USA that really make a big profit, while the retail and service of other countries are just middlemen making a difference
6. The plan to hype bitcoin: it boosts the high-end, core and basic chip instry capacity of USA. other countries are compradors
7. Harm: lose the ability to develop domestic high-end, core and basic chips, and become a retailer that can only sell chips for USA.
2. If you replace it with the earliest backup wallet (wallet. DAT), you can still trade normally. Considering the principle of bitcoin, it can be concluded that as long as there is a private key (wallet), you can prove that you are the legitimate owner of the wallet. No matter whether you encrypt or delete the wallet (the core is the private key corresponding to an address), you can't deny it
3. When backing up the bitcoin wallet, you should also pay attention to the existence of the change mechanism of bitcoin payment (for example, if you send 50 BTC in a complete 100 BTC to an address, the system will send 50 BTC to the other party's address, and return 50 BTC to a new address of your client, which will not be directly displayed in your address list)
4. After sending bitcoin to other addresses 100 times or using 100 different addresses to receive bitcoin, please back up your wallet again, otherwise the returned and received bitcoin will be lost forever. In addition to encrypting wallets, users can also generate offline paper wallets and brain wallets.