One of the two pairs of private and public cryptographic keys that each account has, with the private spend key used to spend any funds in the account.
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Private key generation?
What are the technical specifications of a private key?
https://getmonero.org/technical-specs/ doesn't say.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key shows: "In Bitcoin, a private key is a 256-bit number, which can be represented one of several ways.…
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Do all Monero private spend keys start with a 3? What other patterns are there?
Is there a pattern to a Monero private spend key? Do they all start with 3?
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