0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Fabs OP 26 Jan \ parent \ on: Someone calculated a fitting private key to my sole Bitcoin-adress bitcoin_beginners
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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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