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Re: [Technical] How the address and private key are generated?
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btcb3g1nn3r
on 25/12/2020, 20:03:31 UTC
Very nice post and thanks a lot for your explanations! As I told you, I got the essence from your thread, your post above just makes it crystal clear for the next beginner diving into crypto swamp Cheesy
I admire your passion!
I'm a very curious person so probably my next personal study will go into "how's made" of these functions applied and mainly on your step 2.

Another question, can I just type random 64 characters to get a private key? Can I assume that it'll match someone's private key so I can accidentally benefit of his/her funds??
Can I just try sweeping this key? 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003
Is this something that an attacker can actually attempt to use, to try sweeping such randomly created keys (eg. as brute force) ?