#Bitcoin pill n.2:
A private key is an integer number.
A private key more precisely is an integer number which ranges (in the hexadecimal system) between 1 and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141
There are then approximately 10^77 possible private keys usable in the Bitcoin network.
It is estimated that there are between 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the known, observable universe.
Therefore trying to find a specific private key is almost like trying to find a specific atom in the observable universe
stefanogaspari / Stefano Gaspari
npub12l…495k4
2023-10-13 12:12:45
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npub12lw3llqas76pjlvmmrcdlt4jtz8cusnntq6ct669sdfcfmq9m25qc495k4Published at
2023-10-13 12:12:45Event JSON
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"content": "#Bitcoin pill n.2:\n\nA private key is an integer number.\n\nA private key more precisely is an integer number which ranges (in the hexadecimal system) between 1 and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141\n\nThere are then approximately 10^77 possible private keys usable in the Bitcoin network.\n\nIt is estimated that there are between 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the known, observable universe.\n\nTherefore trying to find a specific private key is almost like trying to find a specific atom in the observable universe",
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