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Crypto

Can guessing 24 words steal Satoshi\'s bitcoin? Experts say it would take 13.8 billion years

A claim spreading on X said bitcoin believed to be held by Satoshi Nakamoto could be stolen by correctly guessing a 24-word phrase. Researchers said the premise is unrealistic. Even with computing power generating 1 trillion combinations per second, it would take about 13.8 billion years to find a specific 24-word seed phrase with a 50 percent chance. They also said Satoshi’s coins are spread across more than 22,000 older addresses, not a single seed-based wallet.

Games & Commerce

Game makers put proven IP front and center to cut new title risk

As development costs rise and hits become harder to predict, South Korean game companies are turning to proven intellectual property to reduce release risk. Rather than building new worlds and characters from scratch, they are adapting web novels and webtoons that already have readers and fandoms to secure early users and ease marketing burdens. Nexon, Netmarble and Kakao Games are preparing new titles based on such IP, though the industry says strong execution still determines success.

Games & Commerce

Shift Up Q2 operating profit 28.1 billion won, down 58.8 percent on year

Shift Up said on Monday its second-quarter consolidated operating revenue was 55.7 billion won and operating profit was 28.1 billion won, with net profit of 41.7 billion won. Revenue, operating profit and net profit rose from the previous quarter, but all fell from a year earlier. The company said the year-on-year decline was largely due to base effects following the PC version launch of \"Stellar Blade\" in the second quarter of last year.