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Tatey Watey
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2024-08-27 17:15:17

Tatey Watey on Nostr: Correct me if I’m wrong, vanity npubs are riskier than random ones, correct? In my ...

Correct me if I’m wrong, vanity npubs are riskier than random ones, correct?

In my head, if I were to mine a key pair to find npub1tatumnxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d for example, someone could in theory target that easier than Tatey Watey (npub1hte…sw3d).

Or am I far off base because of the remaining characters? Or hell, could the same argument be made for mining npubs that ARE random?

I think I may be answering my own question here with such a small portion of your vanity npub not being enough to guarantee finding that key pair.

Help? I’m fucking stupid?
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npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d