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oxalo | 10 years ago

What's the possibility someone brute forced his private key?

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valarauca1|10 years ago

Highly unlikely.

Bitcoin private keys are 256bit ECDSA keys. The largest key (publically broken) of this type is ~114bit PS3 hardware key which took 17 months on ~2600 systems.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#Ke...

maxerickson|10 years ago

Roughly 0.
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