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Jun 2020
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SLP187 John Cantrell - Bruteforcing Bitc...

STEPHAN LIVERA
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John Cantrell, Bitcoin developer joins me to talk about how he  cracked Alistair Milne’s social media bitcoin challenge. With the first 8  words of the seed, John was able to crack a 12 word seed using a  cluster of GPU’s. John is also the creator of Juggernaut, a lightning  messaging app.

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