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Comment by wahern

Hackers assemble zombie clusters with hundreds of thousands of machines, if not millions of machines, each with multiple CPUs.

The number of CPUs dedicated to Bitcoin mining must be in the hundreds of millions.

1000 guesses per second * 100 million CPUs... good luck with your linear work factor KDF protecting your short password.

parent wahern 7 years ago

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