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Re: Prime number Bitcoin keypairs - How and why
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PrimeNumber7
on 20/03/2021, 07:03:45 UTC
Is this unsafe? (I think not, according to the prime number theorem (PNT) there should be about 6.54*10^74 primes - a huge number - in the range as defined by the secp256k1 with the ECDSA algorithm. In other words, of all possible private keys, approximately 0.056% are prime, but only a few of these correspond to public addresses whose hash160 happen to be prime too.)

Yes. You are reducing the number of possible private keys. There is no benefit to doing this, but there is a reduction in security.