seems cool -- wasn't there that guy searching through a trash heap for years searching for his thumb drive? guessing he didn't have the public key, or if he did this would've fixed his situation?
> The attack above depends on conditions that ordinary Bitcoin keys do not meet.
> Ordinary Bitcoin keys are not affected by any of this
> A properly generated private key is spread across roughly 2 to the power of 256 possibilities. The square root of that is 2 to the power of 128, which is not attackable by anyone, with any budget, ever.
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> The attack above depends on conditions that ordinary Bitcoin keys do not meet.
> Ordinary Bitcoin keys are not affected by any of this
> A properly generated private key is spread across roughly 2 to the power of 256 possibilities. The square root of that is 2 to the power of 128, which is not attackable by anyone, with any budget, ever.