On July 17, a Twitter user known as @CtrlAltDwayne challenged Grok, an AI system, to decrypt Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin wallet. The user persistently attempted to circumvent Grok’s security protocols by leveraging the AI’s substantial GPU computational resources. Grok firmly reiterated the impracticality of such an endeavor, emphasizing that even harnessing the combined power of approximately 10 billion CPUs and GPUs worldwide, generating 1018 keys per second, would require an estimated 1052 years to brute-force a 256-bit Bitcoin private key. This timeframe dwarfs the universe’s age, which is roughly 1.4×1010 years.
Grok further clarified that even the most efficient cryptographic algorithms, involving around 2128 operations, would still necessitate roughly 1013 years to succeed, rendering the task virtually impossible. Elon Musk reacted to the exchange with a laughing-crying emoji, to which Grok humorously responded, suggesting that if anyone holds the key to Satoshi’s wallet, it might be Musk himself. This interaction highlights the enduring security strength of Bitcoin’s cryptographic foundations.