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Could a computer one day be powerful enough to reverse generate the private key for those "irretrievable" bitcoins? Granted we are living in a very different t
by ck2 11y ago
Could a computer one day be powerful enough to reverse generate the private key for those "irretrievable" bitcoins?
Granted we are living in a very different technological age by then.
- oh_sigh 11y agoIf that was feasible, the entire bitcoin network would be destroyed(because you could now spend other peoples money by figuring out their private key based on their public wallet address)
- dllthomas 11y agoIf it approached feasible gradually and visibly enough, and secure alternatives for verifiable digital signatures existed, the network wouldn't necessarily be destroyed. We could see a gradual migration to addresses of the new form, while lost coins would eventually become retrievable.