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To: EEGator
No, never.

The Bitcoin core code and the Bitcoin ledger are public and decentralized. Every has access to view (and mine) it if they want to.

There's nothing to 'hack' except the hashing algorithms (SHA256) which protect the wallets, which are unhackable. There are more combinations to a bitcoin wallet address than there are atoms in the universe. I did the math a while back, and it's something like 1.15e+77.

38 posted on 02/28/2024 6:56:13 AM PST by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

We will revisit this post in the future.


39 posted on 02/28/2024 6:59:55 AM PST by EEGator
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To: GunRunner
... in the observable universe. And I believe some of the Bitcoin exchanges have been hacked, but not Bitcoin itself.
40 posted on 02/28/2024 7:02:11 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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