Hello!
This is just for educational purposes. We know that Satoshi has an enormous amount of bitcoins and that he has not moved them for a long time. I think we also know the bitcoin addresses containing those bitcoins.
What if someone wanted to steal those bitcoins? They would need both the public key and private key of the address. I know that it would take an enormous amount of time but is this technically doable?
Also, would mining pools be able to push to their clients a script to find those public and private keys? These pools have nowadays an enormous calculation power.
This is just for educational purposes. We know that Satoshi has an enormous amount of bitcoins and that he has not moved them for a long time. I think we also know the bitcoin addresses containing those bitcoins.
What if someone wanted to steal those bitcoins? They would need both the public key and private key of the address. I know that it would take an enormous amount of time but is this technically doable?
Also, would mining pools be able to push to their clients a script to find those public and private keys? These pools have nowadays an enormous calculation power.
run vanity gen using the first few characters of his address to get the privkey...
... see you in a thousand years once you get that exact key.
much easier to find out his real identity and raid his computer, oops people are already doing that but finding innocent outsiders instead, poor dorian
Yes that verification crap didn't work out too well.
This is also a very serious concern with things like the MtGox database leak. Now everybody will know the real identities of all the top gox bitcoiners.
