I don't understand the math either, but working for 7+ years doing CAD (drafting) gave me a small insight into the elliptic curve cryptography... I loved shape construction! I loved using AutoSnaps in AutoCAD... I loved using the .x and .y filters to cut down on the amount of "construction lines" needed to draw more complex shapes... Tangency was always a challenge. I could make a block library with every shaped "perfectly" closed polylines! Of course I was using a lot of circles and tangent lines. When i tried to go to the next level and use ellipses, not every shaped could be "perfectly closed"... something to do with the radii points of the ellipse and the Civil 3D profiles obviously used some calculus to render the profile lines. It became evident to me that some geometry could not be "replicated" or constructed from unknown sets of initial conditions. My little brain was bumping into the underside of the genius that is calculus, but i never had the privilege to break into that domain of understanding...

In my early days of learning about bitcoin, I bought a book called "Bitcoin for the Befuddeled"... It had cool color cartoons in the middle... In the animated story, the Alligator tries to explain the "irreversability" of the hashing/signing algorithim... I presume this is the ECDSA component... The authors tell the story about the alligator driving a precarious route with verbal instructions only while being blindfolded... The alligator has to get back by sight alone and using the reverse of the complicated instructions he was given verbally.. The point of the illustration is that doing the calculation in reverse has so many possibilities that it is practically impossible to arrive at the starting formula or the intial conditions which would be the bitcoin signing private key i presume. It was a series of cad blocks containing many ellipses that connected to this book's illustration, years later. It all clicked for me years later, when I read this book... It didn't make me a bitcoin genius or anything, but it wedged like a splinter in my mind.

I joined the bitcoin gang at 750 for 13 units, but fear is the mind killer and I got out the following week. I have learned my lessons, but I have not applied them well. Do not make the same mistakes as I. Keep learning. Keep trying new tactics.