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I know brute force guessing a Bitcoin key is like an astronomical lottery ticket, but the odds can't be much worse than extracting a working hard drive from 15,
by unyttigfjelltol 2y ago
I know brute force guessing a Bitcoin key is like an astronomical lottery ticket, but the odds can't be much worse than extracting a working hard drive from 15,000 tons of decade-old trash.
- Townley 2y agoA single person sifting through 15,000,000 pounds of trash at a rate of one pound per minute would take 28 restless years But finding one of 2^256 private keys would take millions of years. This math felt correctly conservative https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-would-it-take-a-large-computer-to-crack-a-private-key https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-wo... There’s a chance that if Moore’s Law holds, a computer might catch up after decades of continued exponential growth. But my money’s still on the trash spelunker in that race
- unyttigfjelltol 2y agoFinding the drive is only part of the required luck.