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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Determining the positivity or negativity of a Bitcoin public key
by
mcdouglasx
on 18/01/2025, 04:20:59 UTC
Final Summary
Negative public key values exist mathematically, but they are abstracted away in Bitcoin's implementation. This abstraction leads to the common misconception that public keys cannot be negative.

I am not assuming that a coordinate has no positive or negative values ​​in the intermediate process, but that it does not indicate an order relationship between public and private keys. Both are simply two possible points on the curve of a coordinate, i.e. there is no relationship in this regard to their order. If there were a way to identify them, it would not be through this.