I’ve been working on a tool for brute-forcing Bitcoin private keys. LBC is attempting to cash in on (aside from other “collateral damage” of people with weak keys). LBC site just slow on updating its stats page? If you got in during the initial wave, you still have significant “value” that can be converted into legal tender or exchanged for goods or services from someone who will accept it. These past days, I have done a lot of thinking about bitcoin that ended up with me investing all of the money I had saved and all that I can borrow into the currency. These past days, I have done a lot of thinking about bitcoin that ended up with me investing all of the money I had saved and all that I can borrow into the currency… It can search for compressed/uncompressed keys or both. On my hardware (GeForce GT 640) it gets 9.4 million keys per second compressed, 7.3 million uncompressed.
I am going to say is purely theoretical, as I have never tried to brute force private keys. If it were brute force-able, bitcoin wouldn’t be worth anything. If you had changed 2,500 euros into bitcoin last spring, they would be worth more than two point five million euros today. If you have enough hash power, you would probably make more money working as an honest node, mining. Bitcoin protocol is secure enough. The modern monetary theory crowd will argue that bitcoin won’t be accepted in payment of tax. But I don’t think any of that will work, and will be a waste of time and resources. I don´t think you will have any success doing this. As long as the alternative currency stays fringe (like Canadian Tyre money for instance), it can be tolerated, but as soon as it empowers people to circumvent taxation, money laundering prevention or gives people the ability to send money internationally without government control, you will have the authorities coming down on you like a ton of bricks.
Anyways, I think digital crypto currencies will be the most exciting technological journey since the invention of the internet. I think that this is driven by the same factors that have pushed the price of gold and silver through the roof – the fear of a total collapse of the US dollar and hyperinflation. What i think you could do is to find a collision. Did someone else find it? I found some addresses which used to have balances, but not anymore. What is interesting is that the addresses in the middle range of amounts (0.056 to 0.16 BTC), which were theoretically “easier” than the addresses with the larger amounts, have not yet been “cracked”? No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. Something like that, yes. Yes I agree that you shouldn’t have all your eggs in one basket. It builds on Windows using Visual Studio 2015, and Linux using Make (you might have to edit the Makefile and point it towards your CUDA toolkit directory).
Currently it is CUDA only. It is open-source under the MIT licence and requires no external dependencies other than the CUDA toolkit. Just like with all great ideas, many people spread FUD. Just like I don’t believe in a just emporer of the empire. I tried those terms like “wallet” “bitcoin”. Maybe it was not a coincidence that bitcoin was conceived in 2009 – the year of the big gambling fail of centralized currency financial institutions… But in order to get national currency into your account, you need to make a bank transfer to MtGox. If a bank (or “real bank” as you call it) produces anything, then it would be a miracle if it wasn’t tied to a single method for authentication and encryption that cannot be replaced, no matter how insecure or inconvenient it is. No bank holidays were relevant. The same they’d do to me, and I don’t care.
