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Bitcoin addresses

Bitcoin addresses are human-facing encodings of spending destinations or script commitments, not permanent account identifiers.

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Why it matters

Bitcoin addresses are human-facing encodings of spending destinations or script commitments, not permanent account identifiers.

Canonical knowledge

What California Bitcoin maintains

  • Bitcoin addresses are human-facing encodings of spending destinations or script commitments, not permanent account identifiers.

Primary and technical sources

Evidence before assertion
Bitcoin Developer Documentation

Bitcoin.org

Tier — · technicalBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto

Tier 1 · primary

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