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mattlondon ◴[] No.44467062[source]
Maybe that guy who was digging up a landfill to find his old HDD finally found it!

Seriously though, what are the odds that someone has been quietly spending 10s/100s of millions in cloud compute to brute force the keys for old wallets?

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throw310822 ◴[] No.44467396[source]
> what are the odds that someone has been quietly spending 10s/100s of millions in cloud compute to brute force the keys for old wallets?

Even if that were possible, you could brute force one wallet. Not eight wallets closely related to each other.

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Scoundreller ◴[] No.44468059[source]
Keys created with an RNG that turned out to be a little too predictable?

Or some other flaw found in a wallet’s key generation?

Kinda like what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6195493

(Or exactly that but nobody tried to attack this again with moar power?)

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1. HeartStrings ◴[] No.44470272[source]
It’s quantum computer.