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>Your prize will be the ability to spend the BitCoin by the inventors that are unspent in the BlockChain.

Not to ruin our fun here but I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this statement, unless our VQC can also reverse RIPEMD160 and SHA256 in addition to ellipitc curves. The reason being mined blocks contain only hashes of the public EC key, not actual keys.

We'll still break bitcoin though, as any address that has had a single outgoing transaction can be calculated since the public key can be extracted from a signature. Even if every address is only used once, there is still a race condition as we can just crack any new transactions before they are mined and make our own transaction with higher fees. Currencies are not very useful if you can't move the coins without them being stolen

We just can't touch any unspent coins or newly mined blocks…

Keep going!

>>2542

x_plus_n has been bugging me forever, there has got to be a way to get to the value without calculating n first, otherwise whats the point of including it?

>>2551

Only when someone already spent some and you have their public key, so yes! Or if they try to spend it. No spending mined coins without a transaction first as far as I can tell