[Cryptography] BitCoin Question - This may not be the best place to ask

Bill Cox waywardgeek at gmail.com
Mon Dec 23 00:50:22 EST 2013


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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