Core Scientific Director Says 15,000-Hour Attempt to Crack Bitcoin Security Failed

BitcoinWorld Core Scientific Director Says 15,000-Hour Attempt to Crack Bitcoin Security Failed Jeff Booth, a director at Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ) and founding partner at Bitcoin-focused venture firm Ego Death Capital, has revealed that a 20-year IT veteran spent approximately 15,000 hours attempting to compromise Bitcoin’s network security — and failed.

The disclosure, made during a recent interview, underscores the resilience of Bitcoin’s underlying cryptographic architecture against sustained, sophisticated attack scenarios.

The 15,000-Hour Experiment Booth, who initially harbored doubts about Bitcoin’s viability, said he questioned whether a decentralized system designed to counter state abuses of power could withstand coordinated threats.

To test this, he ran a node and modeled attack methods that could be employed by governments, competitors, and large mining operations.