mycelium on Nostr: Imagine creating a new Bitcoin wallet on a rainy day and it turns out to be one of ...
Imagine creating a new Bitcoin wallet on a rainy day and it turns out to be one of the early Satoshi wallets. Very unlikely (2^256) but the idea it’s not impossible fascinates me.
An accident like this is perfectly plausible although highly unlikely. What would happen to the trust people have in the network?
Published at
2024-12-14 10:10:03Event JSON
{
"id": "742fc21dcfe8a2cb2bc41844e76f3004460758fcc44be8956791516fc75a00c7",
"pubkey": "d209205d0d7341bc79c66855641645b5166f8830f4d028c5386ecc27cf5d7b3f",
"created_at": 1734171003,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "Imagine creating a new Bitcoin wallet on a rainy day and it turns out to be one of the early Satoshi wallets. Very unlikely (2^256) but the idea it’s not impossible fascinates me.\n\nAn accident like this is perfectly plausible although highly unlikely. What would happen to the trust people have in the network?",
"sig": "5c01f658d6f3c28cefaa98b6bf87f4fd676f94b11c698c9d1eb762c2284ad7a485092a083aba9038908e41ccf24963933a455dbb021f32725bc800d0edf87aa8"
}
