Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
Can someone please explain how to divide a point on the curve by 2?
I have been working on software for searching by public key, and I can divide by 2 by performing scalar multiplication by the inverse scalar, but this operation takes a long time. If anyone knows a faster way to divide, I can improve my code and release the tool for others to test.
I have been working on software for searching by public key, and I can divide by 2 by performing scalar multiplication by the inverse scalar, but this operation takes a long time. If anyone knows a faster way to divide, I can improve my code and release the tool for others to test.
If you're going to divide a point by 2, you multiply it by the inverse of 2 by N.
I'm currently doing it exactly like this, but it's proving to be very expensive this way.
