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I just installed it. How do you give an address to people without disclosing it to the whole world if they don't have PGP?

This is one of my addresses, I feel lonely HN :-) BM-2cUHuH7sJdt3GchrqSikvzWP4w7Vm2cjhK (so much for not disclosing to the whole world, but this is just for fun)



Bitmessage addresses aren't secret. They are even being broadcasted to the P2P network when you create them. Of course, one can keep in secret (by not announcing it) that he/she owns a particular Bitmessage address but the addresses themselves are not secret.


Yes, that's what I meant, thanks for the clarification!

I'm receiving messages from HN, this is awesome! I guess if people want to keep using my address to test it, I don't mind.

[edit]: Judging from the success, I should have put a bitcoin address as well: 12CM3uBur4wxsj46BoMgoLqMMyUHqcPEWH :-)


> They are even being broadcasted to the P2P network when you create them.

What is the purpose of this?


The addresses is a hash of a public key, not a public key itself.




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