On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 5:13 AM, Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi > > If 520 bits are present, first 256 bits are the BIP32 chain code, to > second 264 > bits (33 bytes) define the public key (according to BIP32) > In a 33 byte compressed public key, only 1 bit from the first byte conveys information. The other 7 bits can be discarded. This will allow you to reduce the bech32 encoded result by one character.
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