Bitcoin News Today: Grok: Decrypting Satoshi’s Bitcoin Wallet Impossible Even With 10 Billion GPUs

On July 17, a Twitter user known as @CtrlAltDwayne issued a challenge to Grok, an AI system, to decrypt Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin wallet. The user attempted to bypass Grok’s security protocols by utilizing the AI’s extensive GPU computational power. Grok responded by asserting the infeasibility of such an attempt, stating that even if all the CPUs and GPUs in the world, approximately 10 billion in total, were used to generate 1018 keys per second, it would still take an estimated 1052 years to brute-force a 256-bit Bitcoin private key. This duration far exceeds the age of the universe, which is approximately 1.4×1010 years.

Grok further explained that even the most efficient cryptographic algorithms, which involve around 2128 operations, would still require roughly 1013 years to succeed. This makes the task practically impossible. Elon Musk reacted to the exchange with a laughing-crying emoji, to which Grok humorously responded, suggesting that if anyone holds the key to Satoshi’s wallet, it might be Musk himself. This interaction underscores the robust security of Bitcoin’s cryptographic foundations, demonstrating that even with advanced AI and computational power, decrypting Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin wallet remains an insurmountable challenge.