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matevz 7 months ago
I don't get it. Since when is finding a private key corresponding to the public one so trivial?

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It was purposefully made trivial to increasing degrees. Read the first section again closely. Think of it like this, if I tell you I multiplied a secret number by anything between 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 999,999,999,999,999,999,999, then it’s going to be hard to figure out what the number is. But if I make it known that I used a number between 10 and 100, you’ll get it very quickly. This was a cryptography puzzle built with very low entropy (small numbers) and gradually increasing to extremely high entropy. Only the very, very low entropy addresses have been found.