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James87211
2313 days ago
Is there anything preventing them from brute-forcing the wallets from now until the end of time?
They might get lucky in a millennial or two.
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YayamiOmate
2313 days ago
They'd pay more fpr electricity. That's the point of modern widely usedencryption standards. Not to make it intpossible but completely impractical.
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RL_Quine
2312 days ago
The size of the keys is such that you could convert all of the matter in the solar system into a computer, and still not have enough compute performance to reasonably have a chance of recovering the key. People are a lot easier to break.
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smachiz
2313 days ago
I'm sure IBM has a Quantum Watson for this.
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ta999999171
2313 days ago
........
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shawabawa3
2313 days ago
they would be better off (by several orders of magnitude) just buying a bunch of lottery tickets
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