# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-08-15 14:59:10
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37152.msg457469#msg457469

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 @p{brk}
Bitcoin addresses are not public keys@p{--} they are hashes of public keys (RIPE-MD-160 hash of the SHA256 hash of the public key, with a version number and checksum, to be annoyingly specific). @p{par}

I agree that associating a message with a bitcoin transaction would be spiffy. @p{par}