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palkeo on March 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak p...

Of course directory.io is a joke :)

A private key IS a number : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key The one you shown was just encoded in base58 !

LyndsySimon on March 9, 2014 [–]

To be really precise, it's encoded base58check.

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