#BitcoinHashRateSurge miners are breaking records for the speed of hash enumeration))) the principle of btc mining is that once every ten minutes the blockchain gives the task of hashing (sha256) a control phrase with the addition of numbers in order before the expiration of these 10 minutes, in the end, whoever found the simplest hash is the winner))) the simplest hash is the one with the most zeros in front, that is, a 16-bit code in which 64 characters are long, from 0 to f ...

When it all started, the complexity was very childish and the winning hash had only four zeros in front, now I'm afraid to even look there, there are probably 30 zeros in front )))

If you think about it and direct all this power to searching for private keys of old bitcoin addresses with a simple brute force, then I think it will be possible to spoil Satoshi Nakamoto's mood in a day or even let the whole world of cryptocurrencies go))) but at some point we we will come to the point where the computing power of a PC can do this, what will happen then? will bitcoin addresses with a new level of security appear? or will everything go to the bottom?)))