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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @deletedd 26 Jan \ on: Someone calculated a fitting private key to my sole Bitcoin-adress bitcoin_beginners

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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Fabs OP 26 Jan

Hm, what's a way to fix this?

109 sats \ 1 reply \ @C_Otto 26 Jan

Move the funds to an address that is under your control, assuming the attacker didn't already steal the funds.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 26 Jan

Everything is safe, no third parties "pushing" me to do something, I simply wanted to know.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @deletedd 26 Jan

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Fabs OP 26 Jan

Check. Check. Nah.

Say someone decides to see if he can calculate the private key related to my adress he found on some Blockexplorer... What can I do against this?

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 26 Jan

Say someone decides to see if he can calculate the private key related to my adress he found on some Blockexplorer... What can I do against this?

You do nothing but they probably start watching this video at some point:

Bitcoin uses the secp256k1 curve which uses 256-bit keys

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Doo_Deux 26 Jan

If that was possible nation state actors with virtually unlimited funds and computing power would be slurping up BTC left and right, and we wouldn't be here now.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 27 Jan

If that was possible, the world’s infrastructure would be completely vulnerable to the same actor. Stealing UTXOs is not the way to make the most out of a way to crack SHA256.