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Re: [Cryptography] BitCoin Question - This may not be the best

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cox)
Mon Dec 23 00:56:23 2013

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:50:22 -0500
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@gmail.com>
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Are you concerned about a government willing to spend $1B on hardware to
create bogus BitCoin addresses?  If $1B could buy you 1T new BitCoin
addresses per second, we'd see the first collision in about 38 thousand
years.  I'm pretty paranoid about security, but I'm OK with this.

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he first collision in about 38 thousand years. =A0I&#39;m pretty paranoid a=
bout security, but I&#39;m OK with this.</div>
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