[Solved] V2, private keys slightly different?

[jamessmith]

Is this normal?
What if someone never backed up their V2 keys but only have V1 keys?
What is the reason that V2 have slightly different private key? The ending of the key is slightly different. The beginning and middle portion is the same.

[daniel]

It’s mainly due to the new base58Encoding algorithm. Check out this post.