Topic: This is a Picture of a Private Key - page 2. (Read 3276 times)
Nifty... I hadn't seen that dice image before but have read about rolling dice to create pk -> btc addresses before. I like this image myself:
I read a lot of think about the private key on the forum and I believe that it causes a lot of misconceptions in the debate.
A private key is a random number from 0 to very large number.
A public key is a X and Y on a graph.
The reason I write this here is because people think of it as an account #, wallet, etc ... which screw up the debate with lawmakers.
Theo Chino
http://www.article78againstNYDFS.com/testimony.php
This is a Private Key, 100 dices randomly selected; it can't be property ... it's knowledge.
The technical explanation is on this page but a picture is worth a thousand words: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm
A private key is a random number from 0 to very large number.
A public key is a X and Y on a graph.
The reason I write this here is because people think of it as an account #, wallet, etc ... which screw up the debate with lawmakers.
Theo Chino
http://www.article78againstNYDFS.com/testimony.php
This is a Private Key, 100 dices randomly selected; it can't be property ... it's knowledge.
The technical explanation is on this page but a picture is worth a thousand words: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm
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