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Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion (www.morningstar.com)
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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

This argument suggests that one day we’ll be able to brute force into lost wallets when we can break the encryption. Who knows how far in the future that will be.

Nobody knows if a quantum computer is actually possible to build, but in theory, if a quantum computer is built, RSA would be exponentially easier to crack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UrdExQW0cs