SLP187 John Cantrell - Bruteforcing Bitcoin Seeds

John Cantrell, Bitcoin developer joins me to talk about how he  cracked Alistair Milne’s social media bitcoin challenge. With the first 8  words of the seed, John was able to crack a 12 word seed using a  cluster of GPU’s. John is also the creator of Juggernaut, a lightning  messaging app.

John links:

• Twitter: @JohnCantrell97
• Article: How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
• Juggernaut: getjuggernaut.com

Sponsors:

• Swan
• Unchained Capital
• New Brighton Capital (code: LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website 
• Subscribe on YouTube: @stephanlivera
• Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast
• Patreon @stephanlivera