I was explaining to a friend today how private keys work and as usual, the typical questions and doubts came rolling out:
- “How exactly is this private key created?”
- “What if someone accidentally gets the same private key as me?”
- “What if someone guesses my private key?”
- “What if a hacker gets his computer to find my private key?”
- “…”
I usually blow their minds with this video where James D’Angelo👇 (if you want to start using it as well)
The 1st time I watched this video I wanted to cry. Hearing how well he explained this was like listening to a beautiful sympathy that flowed into the most magical reality.
Really, music to my ears ✨
“If you wanna roll dice for the rest of your life, you are gonna need a lot of lives. You are gonna need a gajillion lives.”
Obviously a "gajillion" is not a formal or official number in mathematics or in any numeral system that I know of. It's a colloquial term, but when he says “gajillion”, it really sounds like he ran the numbers 😂
1. Ten: 10^1
2. Hundred: 10^2
3. Thousand: 10^3
4. Million: 10^6
5. Billion: 10^9
6. Trillion: 10^12
7. Quadrillion: 10^15
8. Quintillion: 10^18
9. Sextillion: 10^21
10. Septillion: 10^24
11. Octillion: 10^27
12. Nonillion: 10^30
13. Decillion: 10^33
14. Undecillion: 10^36
15. Duodecillion: 10^39
16. Tredecillion: 10^42
17. Quattuordecillion: 10^45
18. Quindecillion: 10^48
Note: There's also a long-scale system, where the names of numbers are different. For example, in the long-scale system, a "billion" is 10^12 instead of 10^9. However, the short-scale system has become more widely adopted globally.
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