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189 points aorloff | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

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mattlondon ◴[04 Jul 25 19:06 UTC] 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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1. monster_truck ◴[05 Jul 25 08:08 UTC] No.44470975[source]▶

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Being seriously serious, if it was even statistically unreasonable to accomplish this once in this amount of time, it would be apocalyptic. A whole lot more than bitcoin would crumble.

I've personally always been a fan of the idea that the only reason it exists in the first place is to be a 2-trillion-pound canary for sha256

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