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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: 2009 spent - Satoshi?
by
AndrewWeb
on 19/05/2024, 21:00:44 UTC
The number of possible keys is:
115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,852,837,564,279,074,904,382,605,163,141,518,161,494,336
They already have equipment that can search Quetta keys per second
Quetta = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Cool , so now you only need
115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,852,837,564,279 seconds or
3,671,743,063,080,802,746,815,416,825,491,118,336,277 years
or if the efficiency increases 1 million times and you have 1 trillion of those machines you will still need 150 billion times the age of the universe to find them.
With Quetta keys per second, yes. But with

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 keys per second.

only 3,5 years. The life span of a Trout