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No uppercase letters!

Open gogosholo opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

There is no uppercase letters on any generated private key. This is not gonna work!

gogosholo avatar Oct 12 '21 17:10 gogosholo

The first valid private key in hexadecimal is 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 and the last valid private key in hexadecimal is fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd0364140

and YES, they should all be lowercase.

This range is defined by the secp256k1 with the ECDSA algorithm, which is the foundation of the Bitcoin technology.

The Private key you see is this value, the Key you import to your wallet software is the WIF private key.

DavidMGilbert avatar Oct 12 '21 17:10 DavidMGilbert

Got it. Thanks for clearing that up

gogosholo avatar Oct 12 '21 17:10 gogosholo