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Yes, but for how long?
The note was posted for illustrating the exponential increase of security from 12 to 24 seed words.
The beauty of the Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is that it increased as hashpower increases... currently about 350 Exahashes per second.
How long before a supercluster of ASICs is powerful enough to brute-force open a wallet with just 12 seed words?
10 years? 50 years? 100+ years? Who knows?
Published at
2023-03-20 02:20:56Event JSON
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"content": "Yes, but for how long?\n\nThe note was posted for illustrating the exponential increase of security from 12 to 24 seed words.\n\nThe beauty of the Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is that it increased as hashpower increases... currently about 350 Exahashes per second.\n\nHow long before a supercluster of ASICs is powerful enough to brute-force open a wallet with just 12 seed words?\n\n10 years? 50 years? 100+ years? Who knows?",
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