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In practice, if you try to claim those coins by broadcasting a transaction with the collision the most likely outcome is someone will snatch the coins by changi
by drexlspivey 6y ago
In practice, if you try to claim those coins by broadcasting a transaction with the collision the most likely outcome is someone will snatch the coins by changing the output address with his own address (since the scripts contains no signature checking). You would have to give your tx straight to a miner (and hope for the best)
- gojomo 6y agoBut also, in practice, the fame of announcing such a discovery (with or without an explanation of the method for creating it) could be worth more than $26k. And if you wanted to profit from it, via submitting the transaction or not, you could likely make far more by speculating on the effects of that announced collision on the Bitcoin price – likely sharply negative.