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Can a new deterministic address be generated with only an Ethereum public key?

BIP-32 defines a way to generate a new address with only knowledge of only the public key for that wallet Deterministic wallets ... permit schemes where one can calculate the public keys without ...
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Generating a private key without a library

As far as I understand, a private key in the context of Ethereum is simply 256 random bits. The actual application of secp256k1 comes in when converting this to the public key, signing, etc. Based on ...
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My cutom RPC meta mask created account is not showing in terminal

I have installed geth and created genesis.json and run my own private eth network. I started my rpc using geth --rpc --rpcport 5200 --rpcaddr 192.168.1.99 --datadir ./private Then I connected to ...
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How are ethereum addresses generated?

What criteria does a valid Ethereum address need to fulfill? Is it just a random number in hexadecimal? Or does it need to be derived in a specific way, according to some cryptographic algorithms? ...