Oddbean new post about login | logout I have a favorite number. It’s insanely large, and would take millions of years of sustained effort for anyone to find it.
Or a quantum computer
In that event, we’d all be fucked.
I laugh when people bring up quantum computers breaking bitcoin. Any quantum that breaks bitcoin also breaks visa, mastercard, amex, your bank, ssh, https, and on and on. Accept the risk or be a hermit in a cave.
0 is good for me
21 million
Or 20999999.9769 to be exact
So if Dinosaurs had Bitcoin, we'd be cracking their keys right about now?
LOL
Key cracking is not something that actually takes “progress”. The billions of years estimate is the time to check all keys. But you could find the key early, or very late, or in the middle of the process. So you might be unlucky and get your key found in days
unlucky would be an understatement, but it's also extremely, extremely unlikely the only way to shortcut brute force is if you know the RNG doesn't generate random keys but rather there is a pattern, trying those out first can be a days thing but for real any decent entropy key a decade is not even likely
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