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All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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This raises a really interesting question. Though it’s essentially impossible to figure out the key for any given wallet… if you download the blockchain and generate private keys as fast as you can, how often do you find one that has a balance? Will there just be some ongoing very low but decidedly nonzero risk of all of your assets vanishing some day if you’re not using multisig?

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Curiously, after hitting a random page and >> twice, I came upon this page https://playxo.com/bitcoin/904625697166532776746648320380374... that had several keys in use in the past.

I would expect this website, in the rare event of discovering some positive balance, to try spending it right away...

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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post #4

Curiously, after hitting a random page and >> twice, I came upon this page https://playxo.com/bitcoin/904625697166532776746648320380374... that had several keys in use in the past. I would expect this website, in the rare event of discovering some positive balance, to try spending it right away...

Hey John - I came here to ask the same question.

How is that possible. Same happened to me.

>> leads to the "end" page, it's not as I though a "big jump" from some random page... thus I suspect it's simply addresses that are low entropy, at the end of the range.

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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post #2

This raises a really interesting question. Though it’s essentially impossible to figure out the key for any given wallet… if you download the blockchain and generate private keys as fast as you can, how often do you find one that has a balance? Will there just be some ongoing very low but decidedly nonzero risk of all of your assets vanishing some day if you’re not using multisig?

With every supercomputer working for 100 years, you can have 0.01% of all accounts, maybe.
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