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Re: REWARD offered for hash collisions for SHA1, SHA256, RIPEMD160 and other
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pooya87
on 19/03/2023, 04:14:07 UTC
Do that long enough on too many objects, you will have a collection of collisions, conditionally if you could find the public keys of your generated addresses though.
Except that "long enough" in this context means thousands of years since there are a little less than 2256 public keys and you need to check about 2160+1 of them to find a collision. Something that is not possible with existing hardware or in our lifetime.

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More over, there are some funded addresses and obviously their owners are unaware that they are holding the key to an actual collision,
That would be like saying 2 people can choose the same atom in the universe....