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Thanks for the explanation, I think I understand.

I have problem understanding the meaning of 'pay to', I already understand the idea of a hash thanks to the 'one-way blender' analogy that I picked up somewhere.

Does this mean that when you see somebodies public key, that this is actually already hashed, that you are seeing a hashed pubkey?
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Séimí Mac Síomón 1y ago

I don't really understand the attack-vector by having unhashed public keys, I thought the public key is fine to be shared and distributed? I know I'm missing something here T_T.

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Meridian 1y ago

i think the additional round of hashing on top of the public key makes it (possibly exponentially) more difficult, from a brute force perspective.