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seems cool -- wasn't there that guy searching through a trash heap for years searching for his thumb drive? guessing he didn't have the public key, or if he did
by techniquetech 24d ago
seems cool -- wasn't there that guy searching through a trash heap for years searching for his thumb drive? guessing he didn't have the public key, or if he did this would've fixed his situation?
- tromp 24d agoYou may have missed this part: > What this does not show > The attack above depends on conditions that ordinary Bitcoin keys do not meet. > Ordinary Bitcoin keys are not affected by any of this > A properly generated private key is spread across roughly 2 to the power of 256 possibilities. The square root of that is 2 to the power of 128, which is not attackable by anyone, with any budget, ever.