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by billpg 1484 days ago
If you discovered a significant shortcut to hashing and then went back to block 1 and re-mined every block until your branch was the one with the most proof-of-work, I'd have a hard time trying to claim that your branch wasn't the legitimate one, according to Bitcoin's own rules.

I suspect in this hypothetical scenario, however, the bitcoin developers would write a new rule.

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Perhaps a way to generate working private keys for any address. So I could move coins as I wish.
"Not your keys, not your coins."