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		323 on Dec 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi? Because cryptography. It's impossible to brute-force "decrypt" this message, you need to know it before hand. More technically: you need to generate a pre-image of the sha-256 hash.

tripplyons on Dec 13, 2022 [–]

No one broke any cryptography in this situation.

323 on Dec 13, 2022 | [–]

Which is exactly the point why we didn't find out about this until someone leaked it.

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