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In 2015, an eccentric millionaire placed bitcoins in weak addresses. For years, the prize has been contested by bots, GPUs, and in the future, it is expected to be the first target of quantum attacks....

matevz @matevz 1746225612

I don't get it. Since when is finding a private key corresponding to the public one so trivial?

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Here are the links for you to check how the puzzle works — it becomes trivial because the entropy is low.

Guy Swann · 41w

It was purposefully made trivial to increasing degrees. Read the first section again closely. Think of it like this, if I tell you I multiplied a secret number by anything between 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 999,999,999,999,999,999,999, then it’s going to be hard to figure out what the number ...