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Indeed, however there is some logic to their madness.
In this blog post https://blog.dustintrammell.com/block-286-and-satoshis-coins/ Dustin Trammell signs a message to showcase he has access to the private keys controlling some coins sent to some of those bare PUB_KEYs.
But when he does it in core, Bitcoin Core also uses the addresses.
Even though when making the TX the bare PUB_KEY was used, Bitcoin Core also wants you to convert that to an address and use that.
I was very confused about this myself for a bit.
Indeed, however there is some logic to their madness.
In this blog post https://blog.dustintrammell.com/block-286-and-satoshis-coins/ Dustin Trammell signs a message to showcase he has access to the private keys controlling some coins sent to some of those bare PUB_KEYs.
But when he does it in core, Bitcoin Core also uses the addresses.
Even though when making the TX the bare PUB_KEY was used, Bitcoin Core also wants you to convert that to an address and use that.
I was very confused about this myself for a bit.