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> Since I'm already loading all possible words in the JS, How many words is that?

6 years at 600k is a stretch. 400k is very doable though. I think you're looking at closer to 10+ years to hit the higher end of 600k (at big tech)

This sounds like one of those tools that was built internally that could spin out to be it's own project/startup. It's such a clever and easy way to solve their problems.

Yeah. I would log it. It doesn't auto sweep the wallet or anything.

There's a blog post on the same site that talks about using https://github.com/in3rsha/bitcoin-utxo-dump . I'm running a pruned node, I use that lib to dump the address and balance…

Something is off with the output of parsing the utxos. I'll have to dig deeper into it later!

That's such a big number. I still fail at grasping really large numbers like that.

I just haven't updated it lately. Thanks for the reminder. I'll run the scripts now.

That's a neat idea! It's currently all client side but I could add a simple endpoint to store/read the counts.

OP Here. I submitted this 6 months ago as a Show HN and thought I would try my luck again after adding a blog post last night about doing the same thing on AWS.

Things have started stabilizing. React is a clear winner in the framework wars (but there are some promising new upstarts). I'd build a small app in React and go from there. Next.j…

It's unclear where the original data source is. It was my understanding that (clean) data was very pricey and hard to come by. Is this changing? Following the links, all I could fi…

It's doing a batch request to blockchain.info to check the balance. So I generate 100 addresses, fetch them, then show them 1 by one in the UI. Then fetch 100 more in the backgroun…

I wondered this too. I'm sure you could narrow the universe to some degree. Most wallets use the BIP 39 word list as a seed to derive the private key. So 12 words (in order) out of…

OP here. I made this mostly out of fun/curiosity. The premise of cryptocurrencies is that it's practically impossible to guess the private key for a given address. This just keeps …

It would take longer than that to try all combinations. The app logs a message but doesn't attempt to sweep the wallet or anything.

If you're building a REST API you might as well follow the semantics of GET/PUT/POST/PATCH/DELETE. Overloading post requests may seem convenient and tidy but there is a spec for a …