According to Brian Liotti of Crypto Aquarium, if we were to relate hacking an address on a blockchain using a specific private key with winning Powerball, it’s a very wide margin. Imagine the odds of winning Powerball 7 times in a row — almost zero chance, right? Now compare it to the odds of successfully hacking a private key on the ECC blockchain. It’s still more likely to win Powerball 7 times in a row than to hack a private key on ECC’s blockchain (ponder this).

You might be thinking, “that’s an outrageous claim!” but the facts are there to confirm it.

Private keys on the ECC blockchain are encrypted using the same encryption as Bitcoin, which is AES 256 CBC. Because of this 256-bit encryption, the odds of hacking/guessing a private key is 1 out of 2 to the power of 256 (that is, 1 out of 115,792,089,237,316,160,440,392,072,952,656,264,336,632,240,408,136,024,808,616,344,320,544,320,592,936).

Surely, you’ll agree that one must be extremely lucky to win the Powerball lottery 7 times in a row, and that makes it nearly impossible to hack into the ECC blockchain.

Also, there’s an argument that quantum and super computers can crack the 256-bit encryption used on ECC’s blockchain. That is also very flawed; it would take 10 raised to the power of 38 Tianhe-2 Supercomputers (the world’s fastest supercomputer) running for the entirety of the universe’s existence to exhaust just half of the keyspace of an AES-256 key. So yes, the ECC blockchain is very secure against quantum and super computing.

Pretty mind-blowing, right? (If you can wrap your head around the calculations, you’ll find them here)

Liotti further said,