They're the trivial wallet addresses (close to the beginning and end of the search space). I would expect them to be used for debugging and testing in the early days.
> A private key is basically just a number between 1 and 2^256
It's like saying "I'm gonna pick a random number between 1 and a trillion", and then picking 999,999,999,995. Probably not a smart idea given that you don't want anyone else to be able to guess your number.
ECDSA private keys can be arbitrary strings of random bytes of a certain length (unlike RSA, where we need to find prime factors). The first page is roughly the equivalent of using a low single digit number as your password.
ricardobeat|4 years ago
bspammer|4 years ago
It's like saying "I'm gonna pick a random number between 1 and a trillion", and then picking 999,999,999,995. Probably not a smart idea given that you don't want anyone else to be able to guess your number.
johncolanduoni|4 years ago