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The case of 120,000 missing Bitcoins in 2020 revealed: stolen due to "pseudo-random private keys" - CoinFeed
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The case of 120,000 missing Bitcoins in 2020 revealed: stolen due to "pseudo-random private keys"

October 16, 2025
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The study found that the private keys of the wallets associated with this batch of Bitcoins were not truly random, but were generated by a flawed pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which made the private keys calculable.

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