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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What would you pay for the keys to the genesis block/address
by
zebedee
on 22/04/2015, 12:12:29 UTC
This is a thorny topic and really depends on what you mean by "usable" and "lost to accidents".  Of the oft-cited 21 million BTC total:
I guarantee you trillions of private keys corresponding to that address exist.  Mathematically around 2^96 should exist by the pigeon-hole principle.  So the probability that none do is so crushingly humungously vanishingly small that it makes creating a SHA256 preimage look like child's play.