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Vaulted by PROOF

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What's Going on Within the Code?

Aron explores what's going on within the code that holds etherium together. Calculations had to be made around how long it would take to fill up all the different lines. A 256 bit key is just a string of 256 zeros and ones, so if you're going to hack it, you just need to keep cycling through until you get to the right one. It would still take all the energy generated by the sun for 32 years to get as far as the 200 and nineteenth number.

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