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Re: What Happens To Lost Bitcoins?
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Stephen Gornick
on 06/09/2012, 04:09:01 UTC
Isn't it theoretically possible to crack the hash of existing bitcoins to "recover" (or rather forge) them?

I can't remember the exact statement but it was something like:

The odds of that happening are less than the odds that you will die from being struck by lightning after being hit by a meteor which occurred just after you had been bitten by a shark while you stood underneath the curl of an approaching Tsunami -- and all that happening 1,000 times in a row on the same day.

Ya, those kind of odds before you'ld be successful from putting all the computers in the world to work trying come up with the private key that hashes to an existing address, nonetheless one that has any funds on it,