Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake
by yarg on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @06:20PM
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When a fundamental part of token generation is brute-forcing secure hashes?
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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake
by FabHK on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:42PM
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Yes, but you still need, say, one computer to run what Bitcoin does (without the PoW hashing - just checking and recording 5 transactions per second). BTC uses around 15 GW currently, a computer say 15 to 150 W, so we are talking a factor of 1e9 (Giga) to 1e10.