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I would love to understand this in detail.

If you mined it once you get a hash. When you say you lost those coins you lost the hash to the account? When you mined in 2009 was the hash smaller than today? Is brute forcing possible?



They lost the private keys, and they are not brute forceable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signatu...




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