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Re: Half of any bitcoin (crypto) public key - (public key half)
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archyone
on 11/09/2020, 05:34:17 UTC
Is it possible without the private key to divide a point by 2 ?

why not. private key will tell you how many times to add G to itself. but after you are done and have the value for k*G as point P then you can do whatever you want with that point. for example you can add another G to that point and compute Q=P+G or R=P-G and similarly you can multiply that point with any number like computing S=3*P (the same way you would compute 3*G).
2-1 is just another number that your point (P or G or Q,...) is multiplied by. you just have to first calculate what integer 2-1 is in congruence with. to do that you compute its modular multiplicative inverse as i explained above. there is also an example in my second comment with small numbers.

First thanks for the response.
Ok i begin to understand the concept but not ready to go yet ^^.
I know add or substract a point to another (different or equal) but i can't divide a point by any number if i only have the x and y coordinates.
If it's possible can you show me how divide this point by 2 for example ?

x = 72488970228380509287422715226575535698893157273063074627791787432852706183111
y = 62070622898698443831883535403436258712770888294397026493185421712108624767191

It is public key for private key: 10 , and we say here i haven't got this private key.

I expect to obtain the public key:

x = 21505829891763648114329055987619236494102133314575206970830385799158076338148
Y = 98003708678762621233683240503080860129026887322874138805529884920309963580118
(private key 5 )

Thanks in advance