Comment Comment by kristopolous People are actively doing it. Mostly using clore.ai on their 4090x bundles.I used to work in the gpu rental space up to about a month ago.I talked to multiple people dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars on looking for those keys.I'd put house odds at say 20:1 that someone cracked it over someone holding for 14 years and deciding now is strike time.Also if it's a true crack, then Bitcoin price could collapse swiftly if someone just snatched a wallet for 200k of compute or whatever.That's always been the real existential risk. I talked about it as the DES problem over a decade ago. Let's see if this is it parent kristopolous 1 year ago
I used to work in the gpu rental space up to about a month ago.
I talked to multiple people dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars on looking for those keys.
I'd put house odds at say 20:1 that someone cracked it over someone holding for 14 years and deciding now is strike time.
Also if it's a true crack, then Bitcoin price could collapse swiftly if someone just snatched a wallet for 200k of compute or whatever.
That's always been the real existential risk. I talked about it as the DES problem over a decade ago. Let's see if this is it