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Sorry if this is in the wrong section. I see how it connects to bitcoin since we're talking mnemonic words. Thanks for the info, Dave. I’m convinced now. I’ll print both lists. Chinese users can choose what they prefer.

I'm working on a project with mnemonic lists to print. I saw there are 10 lists on GitHub, and two of them are Chinese. One is Traditional and the other Simplified. I'm thinking of printing in all languages for wider…

There are complex methods for finding cube roots in finite fields. Some simple equations might work, but I doubt this info is published anywhere. The smallest pairs for square and cube roots are interesting, like…

Honestly, if I had quantum capabilities, the reward wouldn’t be just 1 BTC. Too low for the prize if you ask me.

Not so sure it's a bug. The genesis block took ages to mine and had way higher difficulty, so they probably just skipped it in the difficulty calculation.

Look into Jacobian coordinates. It's clearer there. You can get the same point using the same X and Y but with a different Z coordinate. By "same point," I mean the points that can project onto an isomorphic plane.

Yeah, it’s all about those explanations Here’s a piece of code I wrote back in 2019. Slower than the fancy 5x52 version but beats the xp-2. Gotta love these optimizations!

Check out this Extended Binary GCD thing There are some decent resources out there. Like the NIST link and this one from cut-the-knot. They really get into the mechanics of it all.

There are tons of values like this. What you want is a primitive root modulo n. You can derive all roots of 1 from it. If you’re looking for a primitive root for prime p, you can use a simple algorithm. For instance,…

Appreciate the clarification, Ambatman! Makes total sense now. I had no clue about the transformation from entropy to the actual Private Key. Anyone with the seed phrase has access to your key. That really stuck with me.

Thanks for those links, mcdouglasx! How did I miss that? They were super useful. So, the PBKDF2 function takes the mnemonic seed phrase, not the binary bits, right? It converts those words into entropy.

I always thought that the Private Key was just the 128 or 256 bits from the mnemonic. But after some digging, I realize I was totally mistaken. The seed phrase actually represents the entropy for creating the Master…

There is a windows build of v0.2.10 from Laszlo Hanyecz (yep, the pizza guy). Check it out here: http://heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/builds/Win32-MinGW-SVN-81/.

You might find some old versions here: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/. Just a heads up, really old versions can’t deal with modern block sizes. And yeah, changes in p2p protocol are a must for anything…