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Re: Why are pubkeys used in HTLCs instead of pubkey hashes?
by
haltingprobability
on
28/12/2017, 14:36:51 UTC
Quote from: colatkinson on December 28, 2017, 11:21:32 AM
Wow, I'm an idiot.
Happens to all of us. As I was falling asleep last night, I realized that I've been consistently thinking that the private key space for secp256k1 is 2
129
when it is actually 2
256
-2
129
, a vastly larger number, close to 2
255
. Duh.