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The article points out that on Saturday, someone basically bought a 256-bit number for $117,712.12. Are we all in the wrong line of work, or what?
by jsmthrowaway 9y ago
The article points out that on Saturday, someone basically bought a 256-bit number for $117,712.12. Are we all in the wrong line of work, or what?
- gruez 9y agoas opposed to paying millions (billions?) for a chunk of carbon?
- wereHamster 9y agoI would gladly sell you a 256-bit number–that is actually the password to my swiss bank account–for 100k USD. For all you know, there might be a lot of gold in it.
- alexasmyths 9y ago"someone basically bought a 256-bit number for $117,712.12" The same could be said of Bitcoin. At least with Kitties you get, well, a Kitty :)
- jmeyer2k 9y agoAn Ethereum private key is 256 bits. I'd buy a 256-bit private key for an Ethereum account that holds $1m for $100k.
- AlwaysBCoding 9y agoIt could have easily been the same person transferring money to themselves though, for either PR or money laundering purposes.