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>Bitcoin addresses are intended to be single use, disposable keys rather a long term method of identification. A portion of Bitcoin's address design is intended to minimize publicity of EC public keys if at all possible.

A potential work around is to just BitAuth with a HD wallet? Thereby negating any address-reuse issues.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...




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