Get public key from an address

[JZA]

Hi I want to know how to get the public key from an address on the console. I see ```importpubkey``` but I would need something more like a list or getpubkey.

 

[UdjinM6]

"validateaddress youraddresshere"

 

[JZA]

Anyway to get an uncompress address:
[email protected]:~ $ dash-cli validateaddress XbbvfoNAxJXZPm4Ve8NcAhdBCG9yhkAfwp
{
"isvalid": true,
"address": "XbbvfoNAxJXZPm4Ve8NcAhdBCG9yhkAfwp",
"scriptPubKey": "76a9140a0a156e037c712b8192f1b766968b425053cf8988ac",
"ismine": true,
"iswatchonly": false,
"isscript": false,
"pubkey": "022c79e7699ebb6c07afdcdfeb1aac03ce4707f0c2628bcbef86b93e2e6b97d69f",
"iscompressed": true,
"account": ""
}
I get an iscompressed true.

 

[UdjinM6]

Not sure what you are asking about exactly and why would you need uncompressed pubkey specifically. Compressed pubkey is completely legit and is used by default. To read more about pubkey formats - https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#public-key-formats

 

[JZA]

I think the compressed public key are not taken by electrum when creating a multi-sig wallet.

 

[UdjinM6]

I think the compressed public key are not taken by electrum when creating a multi-sig wallet.

Electrum is asking you for master public key i.e. the one that start with xpub. I guess it then derives addresses from both your and cosigner master pubkey in parallel to create each next multisig address but do not quote me for that

If you need a single multisig address for a single set of addresses/pubkeys - use "addmultisigaddress" rpc in Dash Core instead.