Wow, honoured 🙏🏻 thanks man!

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notably, the elliptic curve group secp256k1 also is interesting because it's based on the Mersenne Primes which are prime numbers 1 less than a power of two... so the pattern is actually deeper even than this guy discovered. there are other interesting numbers involved in bitcoin's protocol beyond this also, the sampling period for difficulty adjustment is also a "interesting" number too, and 3, 6 and 9 appear repeatedly in the factors of many of the constants in Bitcoin. although somewhat unrelated, the edwards twisted curve, which is very popular with shitcoiners, is a special prime that is a prime number less than a power of two, in that case it is 25519, where the curve group got its name. iirc, it's 19 less, so, not a mersenne prime. and also the group expansion function part of it is somewhat more efficient mostly, except that secp256k1 has a special optimization because it's based on a mersenne prime, and performance-wise, they are actually very close, especially if you consider taproot/musig2 schnorr signature algorithm, which is almost identical to the edwards in most other ways. the only difference is that supposedly shor's algorithm, which supposedly enables quantum computers to reverse the pubkey derivation, doesn't work on edwards, and does work on the secp256k1 mersenne prime based group. also, just saying' but this is why it's super suspicious that taproot reveals the pubkey on receiving, instead of at spend like the previous address types.

well thats another fine rabbit hole you got me into

yeah, the cryptography stuff is absolutely fascinating. numerology is mostly bunk but there is a certain kind of meaning and identity to numbers, this is what mathematicians focused on arithmetic disciplines (cryptography, computation). i mean, the obvious ones like the relations between the simple geometries and how it impacts gravity, and is tied to the physical properties of materials like nano-carbon, and crystals in general. the numbers definitely mean something, and IMO, the presence of these numbers in satoshi's work hint at the idea he was inspired by either God or some advanced civilization like the one i keep talking about.

put it this way, the most remarkable thing about the single piece granite stone vases from pre-dynastic egypt... their construction alone is amazing enough, but the precision and the geometry of the objects, they all have a specific set of numbers connected to how they are formed out of circle arcs and such. whoever made them has more advanced technology than we have now. the precision is at least equal to the top of the line recent generation 5 axis CNC grinders output on the same materials. they leave their mark in many places, i think to some extent even the Bible Code stuff hints in this direction, that whoever gave the texts was in possession of far greater knowledge than anyone suspects.