Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts

Re:Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts by James87211 on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:57AM (#22381601)

Is there anything preventing them from brute-forcing the wallets from now until the end of time?

They might get lucky in a millennial or two.

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Re:Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts by YayamiOmate on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:40AM (#22381755)

They'd pay more fpr electricity. That's the point of modern widely usedencryption standards. Not to make it intpossible but completely impractical.

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Re:Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts by RL_Quine on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:44AM (#22382991)

The size of the keys is such that you could convert all of the matter in the solar system into a computer, and still not have enough compute performance to reasonably have a chance of recovering the key. People are a lot easier to break.

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Re:Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts by smachiz on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:00AM (#22381609)

I'm sure IBM has a Quantum Watson for this.

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Re:Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts by ta999999171 on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:03AM (#22382305)

........

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Re:Drug dealer loses codes for €53.6m Bitcoin accounts by shawabawa3 on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:58AM (#22382290)

they would be better off (by several orders of magnitude) just buying a bunch of lottery tickets

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