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Howard
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I had a dream once where someone discovered a flaw in ECDSA and was able to randomly wipe out any bitcoin wallet they wanted (by transferring the contents to an irretrievable address).
It started off with the protagonist trying it out with small long-dormant addresses, before moving on to bigger and more recently active wallets. Eventually there was enough "WTF" and enough panic that the BTC price started to crash but was bolstered by algorithmic trad-fi hoovering up what was thought to be cheap BTC, unaware of the underlying problems. I'm sketchy on the ending.
In my brain the dream played out like a sci-fi movie, although also felt like some bits I was reading it in a book. Think a mixture of Sneakers and Cryptonomicon.
I blame cheese.