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angryGhost | 5 months ago

> Loading up a single address with too many UTXOs degrades the entropy of a public-private key pair and makes it easier to brute force a user's private key.

Well that's not true... The key doesn't change because you added more bitcoin

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dbdr|5 months ago

The quote does not say that the key changes. It says that each transaction makes it (a bit) easier to perform a brute force attack.