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ad hominem, seriously? What does article submission history have to do with anything anyway. Most lurkers don't submit articles. Did you confuse comments and submissions?

You are confusing BCH with BSV, which was started by a guy who claims to be Satoshi. Lightning Network is not Bitcoin. It is a separate payments platform, being pushed by a for-pro…

There was a schism in the Bitcoin community in 2017 over this issue, which led to the forking of BCH (Bitcoin Cash) as a separate cryptocurrency: https://www.coinbase.com/price/bit…

If you're interested in investigating more, take a look at "Continued Fraction Factorization". This is essentially the first step of that more advanced algorithm. From the continue…

Right. Define L = (a+b)/2 and R = (a-b)/2, so that a * b = L² - R² for all a, b. If there exist positive integers a, b such that a * b = n with |a-b| Then there exist L, R (either …

This is polynomial time in the number of bits. I did make one mistake. I forgot to mention the half-integer case for x and y, which requires some additional logic. I implemented it…

There's a trivial algorithm to do this in polynomial time. Let x = ceil(sqrt(n)). Let y = sqrt(x^2 - n). If y is an integer, then x^2 - y^2 = n = (x - y)(x + y). This provides the …