Why hasn't anyone cracked a Bitcoin private key?

in bitcoin •  8 years ago 

I know I'm not the only person to wonder this. If the American NSA, and other spy agencies can crack other encrypted things, why cant they crack a single Bitcoin private key? I suspect the answer will have something to do with "collisions" even though even though I really don't know what that means...




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    can crack other encrypted things, why cant they crack a single Bitcoin private key?

    That's the biggest innovation of block-chain.

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