📅 Original date posted:2015-01-14
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, 14 January 2015, at 3:53 pm, Eric Lombrozo wrote:
> Internally, pubkeys are DER-encoded integers.
I thought pubkeys were represented as raw integers (i.e., they're embedded in Script as a push operation whose payload is the raw bytes of the big-endian representation of the integer). As far as I know, DER encoding is only used for signatures. Am I mistaken?
Matt Whitlock [ARCHIVE] /
npub17q…upwet
2023-06-07 15:28:31
in reply to nevent1q…da0f
Author Public Key
npub17qxssk9sj2r7jswvh3y32e7vwz7mcckhz33gk9nurdmw0lhsfkgswupwetPublished at
2023-06-07 15:28:31Event JSON
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