"No matter how powerful the computing power, it cannot compete with the ironclad walls of mathematics; Satoshi Nakamoto's 'digital safe' remains the hardest bone in the blockchain world!"
Today, a buddy @CtrlAltDwayne had a wild idea to let Musk's AI tool Grok crack Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin wallet (which supposedly holds 1 million bitcoins, worth over $60 billion!). The result? Grok poured cold water on it: even if all the computers on Earth worked together, it would take 10^52 years to brute-force a 256-bit private key—by then, the universe would have reset N times. Optimizing the algorithm? At least another trillion years! Musk replied with a crying-laughing 😂 emoji, and Grok added: "If anyone could open this wallet, it would probably only be my boss, Musk himself."
This situation exposes many people's misunderstandings about the security of cryptocurrencies. The number of combinations for a Bitcoin private key is greater than the total number of atoms in the universe; the so-called "hacking" is like trying to dig through the Himalayas with a spoon. There was a programmer called "Bitcoin Pizza" who, in 2010, bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins, and he regrets it immensely now—yet even if he lost his private key, no one has been able to hack into his wallet to this day.
So the question arises: if Satoshi Nakamoto's million bitcoins remain forever dormant, is this the "ultimate security advertisement" for blockchain or a "time bomb" for the crypto economy? Let's discuss your views in the comments section, 🔍 (Follow Brother Lei, and let him guide you through the hard dishes in the crypto world with a knife and fork.)
