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This Large Bitcoin Collider is similar to Plundercoin and is actually quite interesting [1]. It's a distributed brute force attempt on every possible bitcoin ke
by madog 6y ago
This Large Bitcoin Collider is similar to Plundercoin and is actually quite interesting [1]. It's a distributed brute force attempt on every possible bitcoin key, I believe initially based on a mysterious bitcoin puzzle transaction [2]. The puzzle was created as a canary in the coalmine to see the current number of key bits from 1-256 that can be brute forced. Each address had the corresponding number of bits in it's key and an increasing reward. So far it's been broken for just over 60 bit keys [3]
[1]: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about
[2]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218972 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218972
[3]: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6...