SLP187 John Cantrell - Bruteforcing Bitcoin Seeds
John Cantrell, Bitcoin developer joins me to talk about how he cracked Alistair Milne’s social media bitcoin challenge. With the first 8 words of the seed, John was able to crack a 12 word seed using a cluster of GPU’s. John is also the creator of Juggernaut, a lightning messaging app.
John links:
- Twitter: @JohnCantrell97
- Article: How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
- Juggernaut: getjuggernaut.com
Sponsors:
- Swan
- Unchained Capital
- New Brighton Capital (code: LIVERA)
Stephan Livera links:
- Show notes and website
- Subscribe on YouTube: @stephanlivera
- Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
- Subscribe to the podcast
- Patreon @stephanlivera
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