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By a supplying an increasing index values and an extended public key to the appropriate function, it's possible to create a deterministic sequence of public keys which can not be predicted ahead of time.
 
By a supplying an increasing index values and an extended public key to the appropriate function, it's possible to create a deterministic sequence of public keys which can not be predicted ahead of time.
  
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Latest revision as of 20:03, 17 April 2014

Definition

"xpub" is an abbreviation for an extended public key as defined in BIP0032.

By a supplying an increasing index values and an extended public key to the appropriate function, it's possible to create a deterministic sequence of public keys which can not be predicted ahead of time.