Bitcoin Special Lecture - Private Keys in the Bitcoin Blockchain

Agenda: 19:00-19:30 - Gathering and refreshments 19:30-20:30 - How Many Private Keys Can We Compute in the Bitcoin Blockchain? (Nicolas T. Courtois) 20:30-21:30 - Free discussion In this talk, we are going to explain several methods which alllow to recover bitcoin private keys efficiently. We will recall three main classical vulnerabilities: bad randoms, weak passwords and HD Wallets. More importantly, we will also look beyond and outline some more advanced attacks. We are going to show how reco…