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by 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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They'd pay more fpr electricity. That's the point of modern widely usedencryption standards. Not to make it intpossible but completely impractical.
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.
I'm sure IBM has a Quantum Watson for this.
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they would be better off (by several orders of magnitude) just buying a bunch of lottery tickets