Quote from: IdMineThat on December 31, 2023, 11:18:10 PM

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on December 31, 2023, 04:10:50 PM

If someone randomly selects the exact same private key with yours (which is immeasurably improbable to happen), then two people have custody of the coins, and either of them can spend them to themselves. No, there is no law that protects you from such scenario.

Thanks! I think that's kind of the beauty of the challenge really, even at 2⁶⁶, nobody has figured it out in years.

I was just reading through the puzzle/challenge stuff, experimenting with some code, and naturally I tried hashing "password", which resulted in an address that did receive and send bitcoin. So, I started trying other random words, phrases, etc... I got a surprising amount of hits. I figure most of them are done comically, sarcastically, but I found it interesting, and wanted to see what the consensus was, or if there were any previous court rulings, or real world examples of this.

You try to act like hunters who have recently come to hunt and begin to divide the unkilled prey among themselves. Bitcoin is not primarily protected by legal laws that will not help ordinary citizens. Bitcoin is protected by mathematical laws that are fairer.