[jakecraige]

Y'all are talking about two different things.

Secret key recovery via nonce reuse(linked SO post) is a different than simply trying a range of integers which is mostly what these researchers did.

[sbhn]

There are many addresses created from integers under 1000000. This is nothing special. There are also many addresses created from basic words converted to sha256 and the used as the primary key hex. Eg, ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ .