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Cracking Satoshi’s Bitcoin Wallet

even if every computer, phone, & GPU on Earth… roughly 10 billion devices, worked together, guessing a single 256-bit private key by brute force would still take longer than the age of the Universe…

by a factor of a trillion trillion trillion

even with the best theoretical algorithms, we’re still talking tens of trillions of years.

in short:

mathematically impossible

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hueso 5mo ago

only if we ignore quantum computing and the fact that her public keys are not hashed (P2PK)

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