Satprinter on Nostr: Now that we have live bounty hunting computers looking for private keys, doesn’t ...
Now that we have live bounty hunting computers looking for private keys, doesn’t that mean high entropy keys are also at risk of getting found in the process (but obviously extremely extremely miniscule)? Wouldn’t this mean all single sig users should default to using strong passphrases? Who wants to risk a computer sweeping their funds finding a needle in a hay stack in a now-forever-processing bounty hunt?
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2026-08-03 21:19:05 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "Now that we have live bounty hunting computers looking for private keys, doesn’t that mean high entropy keys are also at risk of getting found in the process (but obviously extremely extremely miniscule)? Wouldn’t this mean all single sig users should default to using strong passphrases? Who wants to risk a computer sweeping their funds finding a needle in a hay stack in a now-forever-processing bounty hunt?",
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