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borodutch
@farcasteradmin.eth
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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WZD
@0xwzd.eth
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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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
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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Branksy Pop
@branksypop
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.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
That *anybody* wins the lottery has a very high p. That *you personally* win the lottery has a very low p. Yes, low-p events happen every day, just like there are lottery winners everyday. There are 10^8 Ethereum addresses with a nonzero balance. Out of 10^160 possibilities. This is just not one such low-p event
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borodutch
@farcasteradmin.eth
it doesn't though or probobalistic physics wouldn't work
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