OK.  If so, I hope he has fun.  Because that’s all he could get.  He doesn’t 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 Satoshi’s keys is still rather less probable than a plague of flying fire hydrants suddenly killing people all over the world.  Just won’t happen.


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 Bitcoin’s security.  I should probably reply there sometime later.

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Disclosure:  I myself have tried to crack Satoshi’s keys.  Indeed, it is a longtime hobby of mine—a 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.  (Satoshi’s Bitcoins are sacred!  Spend!?  I think such holy relics deserve being swept into the world’s 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 Satoshi’s 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 Shor’s Algorithm as obsolete as doing point multiplications on an abacus.

With great power comes great responsibility; and I don’t 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 Satoshi’s keys are quite safe from him!

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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 can’t even meet the threshold of signing with Satoshi’s private keys.

The part I rendered in bold is eminently quotable.