Npubs are not created, they are found 💜
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Furthermore, assuming your nsec was randomly generated, did you select it or did it select you?
Furthermore, assuming your nsec was randomly generated, did you select it or did it select you?
Sorry, that's nonsense....
🫂 GM
How?
Pubkeys are mathematically derived from privkeys
So, they are calculated, not found.
You do the math to find them on the curve. All points of the curve exist before that.
Ok, maybe we are discussing semantics here, but let's see if this makes sense:
If a*b=c , you don't "find c" multiplying a*b.
"c" is just the same as "a*b". It's just another way to represent a*b.
"c" is "a*b".
Numbers are not found.
Measurements could be found, but not numbers. Numbers are by themselves.
You find the 'surface of a rectangle' with sides lengths a & b, by multiplying a*b. Right.
But you don't find numbers, just measures.
Does it make sense?
As I said, maybe it's just semantics...
🫂 GN
Absolutely! Just semantics. I am neither a mathematician nor a cryptographer. From my perspective you have a finite set of values and each of them corresponds to a finite set of other values. By doing the calculation you are “finding” a values pair from the other set.
But this is not very scientifically put haha.
GN 🫂
I'm neither a mathematician nor cryptographer. And English is not my mother tongue.
So maths semantics are even trickier to play with for me. ☺️
Nice cha either way.
GN 🫂
