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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: "Broken" private key.
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 03/12/2022, 20:16:43 UTC
I'm sorry to tell you that it's the prvKey FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141 which is out of range, invalid.

Sadly, no one can recover those 3.7 BTC that your "friend" accumulated: 1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh
If it's out of range, then how did you generate the public key and end up with this address?

Sorry @nc50lc but it does'nt matter it is "out of range".
It does. Any private key greater than 2^256 - 432420386565659656852420866394968145600 is invalid.

as you see two differents pubkey are valid for the same transactions.
Two things:
1. Posting some lines of code doesn't strengthen the argument, especially when you don't describe what it does.
2. That doesn't have to do with a key being out of range.