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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Why are pubkeys used in HTLCs instead of pubkey hashes?
by
haltingprobability
on 28/12/2017, 14:36:51 UTC
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 2129 when it is actually 2256-2129, a vastly larger number, close to 2255. Duh.