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Brute-forcing bitcoin addresses is not in "economically senseless" category. It's in "even if every atom in the universe were part of a CPU..."
by matt4077 10y ago
Brute-forcing bitcoin addresses is not in "economically senseless" category. It's in "even if every atom in the universe were part of a CPU..."
- juhanima 10y agoThat's right. The numbers above are in the vicinity of 2^60. A typical ECC keylenght is 256 bits, and all numbers in that space are equally good secret keys. The remaining almost 200 bits still present something of an obstacle.