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Comment by selfmodruntime

1 day ago

> None of them were the results of any hash algorithm at all, but rather the output of the C library’s lrand48 random-number generator, seeded with a Unix timestamp!

Could they not be both?

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lanternfish  1 day ago

Extremely unlikely - these are very sparse domains.

  • Animats  1 day ago

    Somebody must have tried attacking old lost Bitcoin wallets on that basis. But so far those early day Bitcoins haven't moved.

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