Quote from: Thekool1s on January 18, 2020, 12:22:05 PM

I wonder if he is trying to crack satoshi's keys... I mean he definitely has got the resources to pull off an operation on this scale and he is maybe trying to get lucky...

OK. If so, I hope he has fun. Because thats all he could get. He doesnt have the resources to pull off the attack: Nobody does, and I am much more sure that he will not get lucky than I am sure I will not be killed by a flying fire hydrant today.

Seriously, think about it: Being killed by a flying fire hydrant has actually happened to somebody, somewhere! Whereas even for an attacker who can spend millions of dollars on an attack, to get lucky cracking Satoshis keys is still rather less probable than a plague of flying fire hydrants suddenly killing people all over the world. Just wont happen.

Quote from: nullius on February 24, 2018, 12:01:06 AM

As a general point about the strength of Bitcoins cryptographic security, from an adapted self-quote, I hereby formally posit the Nullian Flying Fire Hydrant Rule:

Quote from: nullius on January 02, 2018, 08:44:15 PM

You had better be worried about being killed by a flying fire hydrant than about bruteforce of Bitcoins cryptographic keys. It has happened at least once somewhere that a man was killed by a flying fire hydrant.

Please. You dont worry about being killed by a flying fire hydrant. Whereas to be killed by a flying fire hydrant is not only possible, but astronomically more probable than any cryptographic break of Bitcoin security.

In the topic to which you linked, OP combined a small, crudely-stated insight into batch attacks wrapped in a pile of misunderstandings about how Bitcoin works, how ASIC miner chips work, etc., plus some shoddy maths and general handwaving. I think that thread received only small attention, because the Development & Technology forum gets so many of these crank posts by idiots who are so smug that they have found a brilliant new way to break Bitcoins security. I should probably reply there sometime later.

Disclosure: I myself have tried to crack Satoshis keys. Indeed, it is a longtime hobby of minea stimulating intellectual exercise, not unlike my project to build a flying saucer out of empty beer bottles in my garage. As Faust aspired to the infinite, I yearn for the impossible.

Of course, I am not so foolish as to ram my head into the astronomically large numbers involved. Instead, I try to find practical attacks of the type I expect the NSA would probably attempt, if they wanted to break Bitcoin.

It is my heartfelt desire to create a Satoshi-signed message saying, Craig Wright is not Satoshi, and neither am I!, and then live off the proceeds of strategically flooding the BCH/BSV markets with my fork coins. (Satoshis Bitcoins are sacred! Spend!? I think such holy relics deserve being swept into the worlds biggest UTXO at a beautiful bech32 address.)

Alas, I must report that thus far, the very best attack that I have been able to design is: Magick.

Quote from: nullius on January 14, 2020, 12:29:56 AM

I myself cracked Satoshis private keys by performing esoteric rites, and then quantum-meditating until my soul developed the power of sumperimposing all possible keys in all possible universes into a single O(1) bruteforce attempt that is mathematically guaranteed to succeed. FOR REAL. My soul makes Shors Algorithm as obsolete as doing point multiplications on an abacus.

With great power comes great responsibility; and I dont want to inadvertently FUD the Bitcoin market by revealing any proof of my mystical achievement. So sorry, you will must needs take my word for it.

Craig Wright has no magick. He is only a charlatan doing cheap parlour tricks to bedazzle fools. Therefore, methinks Satoshis keys are quite safe from him!

Good talking points:

Quote from: JayJuanGee on January 18, 2020, 02:46:56 PM

It has been pointed out so frequently that the attention-seeking whore behavior of CSW and his various attempts to privatize, commercialize and even seeking self profits with bitcoin is so damned inconsistent with the whole presentation of satoshi, that there is almost NO possibility that narcissist CSW is satoshi - unless he had suffered from some kind of brain injury that had suddenly changed his personality (not wanting to provide any playbook for his next fraud claim attempt).

Quote from: aoluain on January 18, 2020, 05:42:41 PM

Actually the Bitcoin whitepaper kind of paints an image of finance sucking
banks who want control of more and more of our funds, CSW is a representation
of everything which Satoshi created Bitcoin to combat.

Well, no wonder he cant even meet the threshold of signing with Satoshis private keys.

The part I rendered in bold is eminently quotable.