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A Hash160 Collision


LBC Manual RTFM Part IV: Theory (this page) A hash160 Collision This is a collision finders pool, because its main purpose is to find a hash160 collision. It may be necessary to describe in detail what a hash160 collision is.

Because the codomain of the SHA256 function is the domain of the RIPEMD160, we can expect the 2 96 valid private keys to every address also to be evenly distributed in the 256bit search space, each on average in a block of 160bit size. Depending on their proclaimed speed and promised time to work on the problem they are assigned a small interval out of the huge 0 to 2 159 search space. What's even more important, that the funds on these addresses themself are a very high motivation for the rightful owner to claim them back in case an alternate private key has been found.

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