I have been trying to import a public key into my bitcoin[1] node, but it keeps saying that it isn't valid.
The address '18uLJohita1yWTAcDpoLPpd2vNAtnsLW4E' publishes front-pages of the New York times into the BSV ledger and I want to add its public key to my bitcoin server so I can see new UTXOs. The key must be in HEX, per the command.
bitcoin-cli validateaddress 18uLJohita1yWTAcDpoLPpd2vNAtnsLW4E
{ "isvalid": true, "address": "18uLJohita1yWTAcDpoLPpd2vNAtnsLW4E", "scriptPubKey": "76a91456aea08d8feaefb18222fcef953366da2a7f200588ac", "ismine": false, "iswatchonly": false, "isscript": false }
bitcoin-cli importpubkey 76a91456aea08d8feaefb18222fcef953366da2a7f200588ac error code: -5 error message: Pubkey is not a valid public key
It accepts that I have sent hex, but it doesn't like it. This is clearly more than just the public key, I can see that from a vout:
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 56aea08d8feaefb18222fcef953366da2a7f2005 OP_EQUALVERIFY # OP_CHECKSIG",
So maybe it wants me to remove the OP_DUP, OP_HASH160 and OP_EQUALVERIFY:
bitcoin-cli importpubkey 56aea08d8feaefb18222fcef953366da2a7f2005 Pubkey is not a valid public key
Hmm? Maybe it wants the checksum at the end...
echo 18uLJohita1yWTAcDpoLPpd2vNAtnsLW4E | base58 -d | xxd -p 0056aea08d8feaefb18222fcef953366da2a7f200559461147 bitcoin-cli importpubkey 0056aea08d8feaefb18222fcef953366da2a7f200559461147 error code: -5 error message: Pubkey is not a valid public key
I them write a bigendian reversal script and tried it, didn't help either.
I am official stumped.
Thanks in advance.
[1] I currently run bitcoin.sv and digibyte and have the same problem on both.
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