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ikeboy on Feb 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision

Someone just made about $2500

See https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2013... and https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/address/37k7toV1Nv4D...

JshWright on Feb 23, 2017 | [–]

That would offset a very, very tiny fraction of the cost of 56,940,000 CPU hours and 963,600 GPU hours.

robjan on Feb 23, 2017 | | [–]

The person who collected it was most likely not a Google employee; just the first person to download those files who knew about the bounty.

vortico on Feb 23, 2017 | [–]

Google is now rich!

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