Had to think about this one. Everyone saying it would be easier is wrong. The first characters being human-appreciated will no different than them being random appearing when it comes time to guess the secret key behind it. Now.. if your secret key has human-appreciated structure to it, and even worse if you share what some of that structure is, that’s a different story.
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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