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NUMS_UNSPENDABLE_KEY_HEX is not supposed to be used as is (privacy concerns) #218

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I believe technically the NUMS_UNSPENDABLE_KEY_HEX is not supposed to be used as is (privacy concerns), though for now it's fine. Per BIP-0431, should add an issue to do the following:

"In order to avoid leaking the information that key path spending is not possible it is recommended to pick a fresh integer r in the range 0...n-1 uniformly at random and use H + rG as internal key. It is possible to prove that this internal key does not have a known discrete logarithm with respect to G by revealing r to a verifier who can then reconstruct how the internal key was created."

Originally posted by @notmandatory in #208 (comment)

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