Quote from: FlleOWA on Today at 09:12:09 AM

Quote from: digaran on Today at 08:59:00 AM

So are you accusing the puzzle creator of theft? Meaning he will later empty other people's wallets?

Here is another embarrassment for all the so called educated people, my post above, if you can, go ahead and solve it. 😂

Not necessary. He can then empty dead wallets from which there will be no demand. And as far as we know, there are a lot of lost wallets, especially wallets that did not have outgoing transactions after 2012. And this will not be theft, since even the real owner will not be able to confirm his right to this wallet. And you can easily, having a private key, say that it was yours, you just recently managed to find the key.

We all know that there is no system created by people that does not have vulnerabilities. Everything breaks. And Bitcoin too. It may even already be hacked, just why talk about it, withdraw your money and live happily.
Every year billions are stolen from the Visa and Maestro systems, but they don’t talk about it so you don’t panic. Even the Apple system is not secure as advertised.

Just if I could find a vulnerability that allows me to get any private key. I would quietly and calmly rummage through dead small wallets and cash out through exchangers. Why would I leak such information and put my life in danger? Such news will reset the price and many will simply lose billions, and many will want to take revenge on me for this.

Because it would be better than having a selected group to have access to the whole thing, imagine if someone had a backdoor to Bitcoin, do you know what they could do to anyone with huge stakes?

So which scenario is better? To have access to all the coins secretly and doing whatever you want, or forcing the whole system to change algorithms to stop any unauthorized access?

Not to mention, there is no such a thing as "lost" Bitcoins, because once you lose access to your keys, there is no possible way to prove that you have lost the access to your keys, therefore, any perceived lost coins, could still have owners with access to the keys, they just are not interested to reveal it. Regardless, even if they are truly lost, they are not your to take. Period.