2011/7/6 lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]>: > I find the phrasing very strange. You cannot "destroy" a bitcoin, only > render it practically beyond recovery. You could still recover it by > figuring out which account's full of money and brute forcing their private > key from their public key and transaction log, it's not likely to be > feasable anytime soon though.
As I said earlier, it is entirely possible *at the protocol level* to create transactions that transfer money into black holes that are unrecoverable -- no amount of crunch will recover them. None of the generally available interfaces expose this, however. -- Taral <[email protected]> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
