Ethereum

damn just got $250k drained from one of my cold wallets

it's so cold there is no way of tracing how that happened

it isn't a large amount of money but i'm kind of dumbfounded by how this happened

can't put my finger on it

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BDTCH COIN'T (PIGEON.TRADE)

The probability of two users generating the exact same private keys is extremely low, but not impossible. This is the only explanation I could think of considering that you never used or exposed your wallet to some vulnerabilities or exploits.

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StarkNet Token

There are 2^160 Ethereum addresses. That’s 1 followed by 48 zeroes. There is no chance in this universe that a genuine collision happened.

I’d rather believe that @cassie broke prime factorization and is secretly draining our wallets

Or that @farcasteradmin.eth was the victim of a much more mundane but sly attack

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Our universe exists because of smaller than that probabilities happening every day.

not that there might have been a collision, not at all, just pointing out probabilities are counter intuitive to our human experience and lifespan.

it doesn't though or probobalistic physics wouldn't work

probabilistic physics says exactly that, anything that can happen, *will* happen, provided enough time

this is precisely what i'm saying what's counter-intuitive due to how we cannot understand probabilities well enough :)

it's "intuitive" that if there is close to 0 chance of something happening then given infinite time it will happen 100% but what's true is that when it goes close enough to 0 "infinity" doesn't mattr

I'm arguing the opposite, using as proof that events with the similar probability close to zero, not already happened but are happening all the time. Not to you and me specifically as in eth keys example, but in the universe. Like the creation of life, stars ...

to elaborate on this: when the probability gets this close to 0, it's almost the same as saying that this would never happen in the history of universe

that's why quantum mechanics doesn't result in improbable events on macroscale