Maybe this is a dumb question, but it sounds like a vector in my barely informed brain so I'll ask it.
If miners are designed to guess numbers all day, couldn't you just modify one to brute force private keys or seed phrases all day? An attacker wouldn't need a double spend. He could just spend some other unlucky bastard's money.
#asknostr
The likelihood of that is like… finding a star in the universe because of the cryptographic root
*googles wtf that means*
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction 🙏
Also miners would be not the right hardware for that function but I knew what you were trying to get at… using compute to brute force a private key/ extract the seed :)
Or at least I guess I assumed that’s what you meant… I think you’re more thinking of the methods a quantum computer will theoretically be able to perform
