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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why Bitcoin can be tamper-proof
by
franky1
on 12/07/2021, 21:22:49 UTC
For example, we want to hack an account:35hK24tcLEWcgNA4JxpvbkNkoAcDGqQPsP(12/7/2021 101451.70580859 BTC),

We  have to try 1.1579209e+77 times to crack his private key.
Note that you don't have to try 2^256 times to crack an address' private key instead of the specific private key that was generated, but rather 2^160.

actually most wallets only use 2^128 before the sha, ecdsa,ripemd stage
so why have a lengthy list of 2^160 when you can just do 2^128 which will result in less lengthy list

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well the side note is.. goodluck convinding your great great grandkid descendants to keep the project going becaise even 2^128 a a few (bigger word then millenia) of bruteforce

trying to find 80million utxo amongst 2^128 is a metal splinter off a needle in a worlds largest heybarn covering multiple planets