Target it for what? We know the whole string of the npub, vanity or not. Are you asking if it's easier for someone to attempt to find the nsec key because the npub has a couple random letters in alignment together in a desirable way? I dunno. We have a lot of atoms in the universe.
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 nostr:npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d.
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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Yes that’s what I was thinking but couldn’t articulate it and ended up figuring it out based on me just realizing that was stupid after I posted. God I hate it here.
It's okay to ask questions brother.
It’s a valid question for sure , made me stop and think about it