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RE: According to recent estimates, there is roughly 6 million BTC either lost or stolen

in #bitcoin • 7 years ago (edited)


I have thought for a while now that when computers get good enough we will have modern-day treasure hunters that will be recovering these lost coins.

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     7 years ago (edited) 

    They could probably get some of those, though they would need the private keys to get others.

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    Possibly using Xeon cluster and using each processor to try different range of possible private keys with single transaction in the block chain, it would be eventually possible. I've seen Xeon clusters work at least as fast as ASIC miners to find block hashes and that is basically the same.

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       6 years ago  

      jajaja todo un universo nuevo para mi, pero como escritor puedo sacarle punta

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         6 years ago  

        me encanta la idea

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