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Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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Re: Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a bitcoin address (a private + public key pair) with nothing but command line tools that are available in a standard Linux distribution.

Here you go: Bitcoin the Hard way http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bi... This shows you how to do everything yourself from scratch. There’s no such tutorial for ethereum, unfortunately, and it might be too complex a protocol to allow that.

To the parent’s point, creating an eth address is identical to bitcoin, it’s the same elliptic curve.
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