Elon Musk Showed Interest When a User Requested Grok to Hack Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Wallet
On July 17, a user on X with the account @CtrlAltDwayne drew attention by asking the Grok AI assistant to unlock the Bitcoin wallet allegedly belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto – the anonymous founder of Bitcoin. The user continuously tried to change the way of asking questions to bypass Grok's default barriers, with the aim of leveraging the massive GPU processing power behind this AI tool.
However, Grok firmly responded that a brute-force attack (trying all possibilities) to find the 256-bit private key of the Bitcoin wallet is completely impossible. Grok stated: "Even if all CPUs and GPUs on Earth – estimated at around 10 billion devices – were used and could generate 10^18 keys per second, it would still take about 10^52 years to try all 2^256 possibilities. This is far beyond the current age of the universe (about 14 billion years). Even with the most optimized algorithm today, requiring about 2^128 calculations, it would still take 10^13 years – which is essentially impossible to accomplish."
The conversation then became more lively when Elon Musk, owner of the X platform and also behind Grok, unexpectedly responded with a "laughing with tears" emoji 😂. Grok quickly replied: "It's fun that even the big boss finds this 'hacker decryption' story interesting. If someone is actually holding the private key of the Satoshi wallet, it's very likely to be Elon Musk."
This exchange quickly spread on social media, attracting the attention of the cryptocurrency community. Although humorous in nature, it once again demonstrated the extremely high security of the Bitcoin encryption system and the impenetrability of the Satoshi wallet – which is believed to contain about 1 million BTC, worth tens of billions of USD.
