Developer Claims He Can Crack $700 Million Lost Bitcoin Wallet
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A developer is using a CUDA-based tool to attempt to recover 8,999 Bitcoin lost since 2010 by a user known as Stone Man.Summary
A software developer claims to have created a new CUDA-powered tool capable of recovering 8,999 Bitcoin, currently valued at approximately $700 million, lost by a user known as Stone Man in 2010. The funds became inaccessible when the user's early Bitcoin client, running on a Linux boot CD, failed to back up a generated change address before the system wiped the data. The new recovery method utilizes GPU-accelerated brute force to exploit weak entropy in early Bitcoin client keys. If successful, this technology could potentially assist in recovering a portion of the estimated 4 million Bitcoin currently stranded in lost wallets.
(Source：BeInCrypto)