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one word is 11 bits of the code, assume it's not the last one, which is useless checksum, you are trying to tell me someone crunched ... what is it... 2^117 options, optimistic average they needed 2^59 attempts... do i really need to show you what that looks like as a decimal number?

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

288,230,376,151,711,740

288 quadrillion attempts with a 50% luck factor

that's exa in greek unit notation as in giga peta exa

bitcoin hashrate in the whole world right now, is at 600M terahash so yeah... a million times the current bitcoin hash rate to discover this key is the cost, not gonna happen in less than 100 years

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

also, just to note, deriving the private key of a public key is a lot more computation than an SHA256 hash - there still isn't ASICs to do this afaik, though i think there is probably work being done, since elliptic curve modular arithmetic is becoming more and more important to security