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Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website by terrahashing on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:47AM (#29636443)
Hashing hardware capability is typically measured in trillions per second (TH/s) so the math might be better using trillion instead of billion. As I understand it, the rental cost of 1 PH/s (which I think is one-thousand-trillion?) is about $10/hour. From that I think you could work out an actual cost to generate a collision!
Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website by ben_w on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:55AM (#29636894)
Even taking the smaller value of 463439129036942 billion years at 1 billion/second (and therefore 463439129036942000 years at a quadrillion/second), at $10 / hour / PH/s, that’s $4.06e22, or ≈ 480 million years of Earth’s 2020 global nominal GDP.