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Can public key he derived from private key?
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on 20/07/2025, 15:15:32 UTC
⭐ Merited by stwenhao (1)
This is coming from a guy that thinks he can correct anyone on this forum as if he knows it all. He is posting that private key can be derived from public key. I will quote him for you not to misunderstand my post, you will read what he posted instead.

I voted no because I see it as a pointless warning because that's not how Bitcoin security should be viewed.
Incorrect approach to security by you. Address re-use was always warned against by anyone who approached security correctly.

The way I see it is that if there is even a small possibility of reversing a public key to get the private key, and we still haven't migrated to a resistant protocol (a hard fork), then Bitcoin will have had become obsolete!
That means the warning you are talking about is either pointless (meaning it is impossible to reverse pubkey and reusing your address doesn't put you at any risk) or it is not a warning (bitcoin is already over and you shouldn't even be using it anymore).
It was always possible and it will always be possible to get a private key from a public key, however low the possibility. Therefore your point is invalid.

There aren't any quantum resistance signatures available in Bitcoin yet, why would you warn users about a threat they can't avoid?

The reason you aren't supposed to reuse your Bitcoin address for receiving payments is because of privacy, not security.
Wrong. It is about security too. If you don't spend from an address, then your public key is safe behind SHA256. There is no risk to SHA256 from quantum computers as far as we know today.

I am referring to Satofan44.

When I corrected him, this is what he posted:

I voted no because I see it as a pointless warning because that's not how Bitcoin security should be viewed.
Incorrect approach to security by you. Address re-use was always warned against by anyone who approached security correctly.
You are very wrong. Address reuse is advised for privacy so far quantum computers are not yet a threat. It is quantum computers that will later let it be of security concern. Your manner of approach is disgusting by correcting someone that is right and saying directly that the person is wrong when you are the one that is very wrong.
Nope, you know very little about Bitcoin. Don't respond to my posts, get back to signature farming in other sections.

This is absolutely false information from you Satofan44. Please do not post incorrect information to mislead people. I hope you have changed from giving people negative feedback because you think they are wrong, just because their posts is against yours.
Negative tagged for posting false information and trolling. You can derive a private key from any public key, it will just take a very long time  Smiley. It is called computationally infeasible, not mathematically impossible. Anyhow a person like you won't know what these words mean anyway.  Roll Eyes Kid just shut up already and let the grown ups talk. Next time ask ChatGPT for help as your brain is just a vacuum.

I remember he gave someone a negative feedback because of what he is doing right now which is false information that he is spreading.

He is not referring to quantum computers but just how bitcoin is now.