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Re:How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases by palkeo on Saturday March 08, 2014 @02:25PM (#7366050)
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 !

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Re:How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases by LyndsySimon on Saturday March 08, 2014 @11:25PM (#7367418)
To be really precise, it's encoded base58check.
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