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Here's an interesting medium article on how/if/when someone can hack someone's private key for Bitcoin: https://medium.com/@nopara73/stealing-satoshis-bitcoin
by srcmap 8y ago
Here's an interesting medium article on how/if/when someone can hack someone's private key for Bitcoin:
https://medium.com/@nopara73/stealing-satoshis-bitcoins-cc4d57919a2b https://medium.com/@nopara73/stealing-satoshis-bitcoins-cc4d...
"Satoshi accumulated about 1 million bitcoins, 1/21 of the total coin supply, many of them are sitting on public keys due to this early feature. This one million Bitcoin is poised to be stolen within 5 to 15 years. Or even sooner, depending on, if secret government projects are still a thing."
At price of $6K/BC, there seems to be $ 6 Billion incentive to build that quantum computer to hack his pirate key.
If/when that happens, it will be interesting to see what will happen for the rest of crypto base eco-systems.