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No, otherwise miners would be cracking wallets instead of mining bitcoins

• lagniappe 3y ago
  They are. This is the foundation of the BTC collider project [0]. By the way, wallets do get cracked this way, but less through technical supremacy and more about brute force. [0] - https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about
  • drexlspivey 3y ago
    Afaik they haven't found anything except some puzzle coins being hidden behind increasing difficulty wallets. Only way they can crack a wallet is if the softwate generated the wallet uses some poor sources of entropy or has a vulnerability.
    • ryan-c 3y ago
      Yeah, regardless of whether you think bitcoin mining is a waste of electricity, those guys are definitely wasting electricity. The puzzle coins have faster-than-brute-force attacks available as an option.