Replying to Avatar Detective Deft Defector

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.

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DagzTagz 8mo ago

The likelihood of that is like… finding a star in the universe because of the cryptographic root

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Detective Deft Defector 8mo ago

*googles wtf that means*

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction 🙏

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DagzTagz 8mo ago

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 :)

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DagzTagz 8mo ago

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

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Detective Deft Defector 8mo ago

Na this one. If it's guessing all day, just make it guess something else.

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DagzTagz 8mo ago

ASICS are like real simple designed like they basically can only do hash math… to break ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) requires a way more complex machine than an ASIC