Quote from: runlola on January 14, 2019, 12:40:46 PM

Quote from: pooya87 on January 14, 2019, 11:02:42 AM

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Quote from: blockladder on January 12, 2019, 10:33:13 AM

The solution is a 32 characters long plain-text (the private key).

As far as I know, there is no 32 character private key. A mini private key would have 30 characters.

usually every character is represented as 1 byte and considering a private key is 32 bytes you can simply convert a 32 char long string to a 32 byte long byte array and use it as a private key.
for instance this sentence ("Hi this is satoshi nakamoto comb") is 32 byte long and can be represented as "10f0c810a0c56a1282574ce4bf9d3e843afc5be688c277ab75e6da1e6f95d756" in base16 or "Kwne8vNfRRiq8d6CB6YpCtbK6EKCRyoCjPGomLshKgubBWwiDQWD" in base58 WIF.

That's called a brainwallet: https://brainwalletx.github.io/

no, that is not called "brain wallet". it is not called anything actually. you are choosing the private key in a silly manner, that's all. a brain wallet has no restrictions for how long the input should be (the 32 byte) so it can be a 1 letter input or an essay of couple of pages long. and that is simply because they hash it to reduce the size.

Quote from: watashi-kokoto on January 14, 2019, 04:52:10 PM

Hex should be: 48692074686973206973207361746f736869206e616b616d6f746f20636f6d62

lol, i don't know why but i was passing the SHA256 hash of it as the bytes instead! fixed it