Of course, I didnt even think about the fact the public key is already hashed!
Glad to hear our Bitcoin will be safe from the world of science fiction.
I think a long Sunday afternoon must have taken it's toll, my imgination has been for a good wonder today...
Thanks for the info though!
Unfortunately, in the earlier stages of Bitcoin, P2PK was implemented instead of P2PKH. The earlier transactions, specifically those that were mined to were vulnerable with the default implementation using P2PK.
That includes the genesis block and many addresses with transactions around that time.
Those addresses with 50BTC can potentially be vulnerable.
Really, I wasnt aware of that. That would surely be profitable for someone if they could exploit that vulnerability in the early blocks. At least it wouldnt bring down Bitcoin as whole though....