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Comment by patrickthebold

12 hours ago

I think the way that the bits are counted is based on the pool from which the number was randomly drawn. So it's possible they had 256 bits of entropy but got really unlucky.

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thesz  9 hours ago

Their other keys are also in 0..255 range. This is definitely not "really unlucky."

I guess they used (x `mod` 256) instead of (x `mod` (2^256)).

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