Check address balance by Google

[Husna QA]

AI would always produced already generated results and any information that has not been generated, it would not provided. But the strange part of this thread is that, how did the google search engine knew our wallets addresses balance when they was no KYC in the registration time? When saw the thread, and I checked my address in Google to confirm and the last transaction date and time always shown. I am still thinking how it is possible?

Bitcoin addresses are public, so anyone can see the balance, transaction history, and other general information even if they don't own the address.

Bitcoin Address is a public key and the balance is a public matter, it is not a big deal for anyone to find out the balance on a BTC address.

The Bitcoin address is not a direct public key but an encoded representation of the hash of the public key*.

The following is an example of the difference between addresses and public keys from my Bitcoin wallet:




* The following is a detailed example:



Address:

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1HUsnaqMKQtcasDMMfL53hGGDpjottCvvZ
Public keys:

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04ecf4df43bc319599b9d69f392eb43190a52749cf98126b6519e823a6b57da4dffb4529bb42e4a698d8123dc3dc89dce1294cf2324898a74a230bf0536dc439f1

[NotATether]

Bitcoin Address is a public key and the balance is a public matter, it is not a big deal for anyone to find out the balance on a BTC address.

The Bitcoin address is not a direct public key but an encoded representation of the hash of the public key*.

Uh yeah, it turns out that this difference is very significant, because in terms of security, you could attack bare public keys with a quantum computer, but the same cannot be said for an address hash because of the extra SHA-256 step.

Sure, quantum computers don't exist in a commercial form right now, but there is nothing stopping it from being created in the future.

[Husna QA]

Bitcoin Address is a public key and the balance is a public matter, it is not a big deal for anyone to find out the balance on a BTC address.

The Bitcoin address is not a direct public key but an encoded representation of the hash of the public key*.

Uh yeah, it turns out that this difference is very significant, because in terms of security, you could attack bare public keys with a quantum computer, but the same cannot be said for an address hash because of the extra SHA-256 step.

Sure, quantum computers don't exist in a commercial form right now, but there is nothing stopping it from being created in the future.

Yeah, a Bitcoin address will be more difficult to attack than a public key because the address has gone through the extra SHA-256 step, as in the P2PKH address example I mentioned earlier.

- Execute SHA256 on PubKey
- Execute RIPEMD160 on hash_sha256_PubKey
- Execute SHA256 on hash_01
- Execute SHA 256 on hash_02
- Execute Base58 encode on hash_final


By the way, I just tried checking the old type of BTC address (P2PK)* used on the genesis transaction:

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04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d578a4c702b6bf11d5fusing Google, but Google couldn't track it.

In this case, using Google to check the balance of Bitcoin assets is not optimal compared to using the Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer.
https://mempool.space/address/04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d578a4c702b6bf11d5f

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A P2PK does not have an official address. However, you'll sometimes find blockchain explorers displaying addresses for P2PK locking scripts, even though they technically do not have one.

[DYING_S0UL]

Wait a minute, when did that happened!!! Just tried it and it worked. And the most surprising thing was, Bitcointalks also showed up in 2nd link/result whatever it is, even though I only googled my BTC address. And more surprising is that it was the thread with banned mixers which popped up. You remember that right!

[NotATether]

Wait a minute, when did that happened!!! Just tried it and it worked. And the most surprising thing was, Bitcointalks also showed up in 2nd link/result whatever it is, even though I only googled my BTC address. And more surprising is that it was the thread with banned mixers which popped up. You remember that right!

I think the address balance checker feature by Google is in addition to the normal search results that are already displayed. Because I can't imagine Google suddenly turning into a block explorer and giving you more data about the address, beyond the balance.

There wouldn't be much to look at on google if all an address gave you back was its balance without returning normal search results too.

[MUGNIA]

Can someone recommend me some Blockchain based AIs?

https://mempool.space or ask chatgpt to show you the results shown at https://mempool.space or any updated AI

I wouldn't say that AI are a reliable source of information.

A transaction that was just confirmed may just be missed by the AI. Using any Block explorer is way better imo

AI is just a robot, it's not real, in my opinion there will definitely be errors in its work, it's not 100% perfect, even if there is a correct and correct conclusion, maybe it's a coincidence.