someone could get lucky and randomly guess satoshi's private key and you would all instantly lose your life savings. yes it probably won't happen but it still could and there would be nothing stopping it and nothing to protect or reverse if it did. this shit is so fucking stupid did you ever think for a second just how stupid that is? and why it actually makes sense to have centralized authorities to prevent something like this? the chance of generating satoshi's key is just the same as the chance of generating whatever key is actually generated, unlikely but not impossible.
Let me get this straight
Thomas Peterson
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Jordan Bell
This would suck a lot.... but if it did happen at least it would be a white man who was smart enough to figure this out and wouldn't be some stupid feral pavement ape stealing my monies... which I wouldn't be able to live with
Angel Torres
I don’t think you understand probability. This isn’t like winning the lottery, this is like brute forcing for millions of years and still not getting it
We’ll see if quantum computers manage to break SHA-256, but I doubt it
Owen Gray
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Caleb Rodriguez
We could also theoretically all be made of cheese.
Michael Brooks
I don't think you understand the concept of "could". There is no indication that OP thinks the likelihood is large enough to be a risk. This is the mark of a normie: see an IF statement and ignore the clause, and focus on the probability.
Jeremiah King
i understand probability. the point is it could happen at any instant and there would be nothing to stop it or fix things afterwards. will it? probably not, but the fact that it could with no recourse is a huge problem, and makes the design of the entire system fucking stupid. that is why it makes sense to have central authorities who can fix things in a situation like that.
Adrian Perez
There's less atoms in the universe than possible private keys. Good luck!
Colton Sanchez
There are more private keys than atoms in the universe or some shit
Samuel Harris
There are probably, right at this moment, people spending insane amounts of ressources trying to get into these wallets. Odds are very low they will succeed with current methods, but it's not just one guy typing random one random number at a time. There's also the bitcoin collider project who managed to crack a few random keys. Again, odds are low that out of all the keys they crack, it turn out to be this one since afaik this project works a bit randomly, but it could happen.
Brayden Nguyen
you are acting as though it literally could happen
Hudson Price
yes, because it literally could happen.
Hudson Gutierrez
Bitcoin collider is a meme. They cracked private keys which were bounties - it was only a small part missing of the key - they basically hacked a 130bit code instead of 256.
Jose Cooper
and a rogue planet could smash into earth at any time who gives a fuck
Joseph Diaz
Aren't you just describing how a central authority could be compromised?
Robert Jenkins
Yeah and I could kill the president by flinging a rock in the sky with a slingshot.
Alexander Rodriguez
it's so far outside the realm of any possibility that it wouldn't matter. it would undoubtedly be satoshi moving his coins, which is an actual possibility
Joseph Torres
It literally could happen.
Adam Collins
It would be pretty epic lol
Hudson Russell
The probability is so low that if you hooked up all of the worlds fastest supercomputers and tried to force guess his addresss it would take over billions of years to finally guess the right address. So tell me why the fuck anyone would be scared of some trillionths of a trillionths of a percente chance of this happening? Are you also scared of the boogeyman too op?
Ryder Taylor
You don't have to solve a SHA-256 algorithm to get someone's private key
Blake Jones
All the miners are going to switch to generating wallets aiming for a collision once bitcoin is mined out lmao
Jace Cruz
Bruv, you can see all addresses publicly. There is even a site that shows the wallets with the most btc in them at any given time.
Bentley Sullivan
we have more of a chance dying from an asteroid you retarded fuck.
Jordan Thomas
>The year is 3024
>My great great great great granddad had put into his will to leave this old computer running
>Totally obsilate at this point but takes no power so whatevs
>Never really payed attention to what it did
>But one day it stops
>Check command log
>Its a bitcoin wallet
>Its THE bitcoin wallet.
>Holyfuck.jpg
>Thank you based great great great great grandad
Evan Miller
you are a fucking brainlet, his coins arent in 1 wallet. He put each block reward into a different wallet. Satoshi has thousands of wallets. You would have to crack thousands of them to get all of the coins
Justin Hughes
there is literally more chance of lightning striking three times around you in a perfect triangle then you winning the national lottery two times in a row than for someone to find any private key, let alone satoshi's
Asher Brown
Yes, but there IS a chance. Like, if there were infinite timelines, it would happen at least in one of them
Lucas Adams
I mean, in infinite amount of them, probably.
Adam Nguyen
only if the person is simultaneously brilliant enough to crack the private key, but dumb enough to cause cataclysmic collapse to the value unlocked therein
>just accessed one of Satoshi's wallets ... TIME TO CRASH THE VALUE OF BITCOIN WITH NO SURVIVORS.
Did you consider how stupid that would be? It's fucking stupid.
underrated
Blake Campbell
It's eaiser to guess someone's credit card number and security code. Why don't you try it? Free shit from online stores.
Brayden Gomez
>so let me get this straight. someone could get lucky and have 10 tonnes of gold materialize in his house out of thin air because of random quantum energy fluctuations. yes it probably wont happen but it still could and the person could get rich overnight. this shit is so fucking stupid did you ever think for a second just how stupid that is?...
Camden King
This.
Brayden Watson
stupid redditor