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garmaine on Dec 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

Not anymore. With taproot the key used is published on the blockchain when the output is created.

shawabawa3 on Dec 30, 2021 [–]

That doesn't make sense.

I haven't published the public key to my bitcoin wallet. If someone sends to my address how do they publish the public key?

There are new output formats with taproot but they aren't mandatory and you can still send to addresses with no published public key

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