Quote from: Hueristic on Today at 02:23:54 AM

FYI, I ve found people don't like to hear uncomfortable truths but will eat up lies that make them feel safe. Wink

Personal text checks out:

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Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it

Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States! Wink

Quote from: Biodom on Today at 02:28:28 AM

Rule #1 in bitcoin:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ipy7le/rule_number_one_in_bitcoin/
[Image: Dont tell people how much bitcoin you have]

Good one. Is the second rule, Dont brag about how Bitcoin bought you a Lambo?

An insightful comment from the Reddit thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ipy7le/rule_number_one_in_bitcoin/g4qv6wv/

Quote from: dlerium

The better comparison is how much money is under your mattress, and if you advertise you have $10000 worth of BTC, then you should be comfortable telling people you have $10000 cash under your bed.

Having always kept my savings in cash before I had Bitcoin, that rings true. Unfortunately, I think that many people nowadays are sufficiently foolish that they would brag about cash at home. I have even seen people post photos of their gold and silver holdings on readily identifiable social media accounts, with faces in the picture (!). Some people just aint so bright.

Quote from: savetherainforest on Today at 02:54:29 AM

Quote from: nullius on September 10, 2020, 10:21:26 PM

12! is only 479,001,600, easy for a computer to bruteforce search.

Ahahaha.... imagine spending 2-3 years in a row just if u lose one to introduce like 500K combinations. (Probably it will be worth it and the motivation would grow even higher when seeing the price rise! Shocked

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Thats close to 500M permutations, not 500K. And any desktop PC made in about the past ten years should be able to crunch through them all very quickly.

The words in a 24-word seed would have 620,448,401,733,239,439,360,000 permutations. You wont be bruteforcing that with a desktop PCnot even if you leave it running for a few years!

(N.b. that there is a slight flaw in what I said above: Words in a seed phrase can repeat. That will be relatively rare. When your seed phrase has exactly n unique words, then the number of permutations will be n!.)

Quote from: savetherainforest on Today at 02:54:29 AM

Edit: Probably developing your own software to interact with the wallet and introduce each combination would be more efficient. Also you can make a blockchain just for that! And basically you can use the network as an addon app to compute the missing numbers or letters with brute force! Cheesy

Say what!? (Why do people suppose that the word blockchain magically solves all problems?)