Silliness. Yes… All private keys ∈ R
They even ∈ N... keys are integers, no?
All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
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Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
With every supercomputer working for 100 years, you can have 0.01% of all accounts, maybe.
... not even close. 2^256 is a very large number. If you could build a computer that required a single atom, and could test the balance of a single account in a single nanosecond, and then converted the entirety of the earth into such computers, it would take ~2.8 million years for you to check 0.01% of all accounts. Brute-forcing modern cryptography isn't something that can happen. The magnitude of 2^256 is close to…
> The magnitude of 2^256 is close to the count of atoms in the entire observable universe.
I've always heard that even 2¹²⁸ is significantly larger than that number (which is closer to 2⁸⁰). This page seems to support that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_con...
Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#63This website contains all Bitcoin private keys in the same sense that a Turing complete computer can solve any programming problem, or the way that a suficient quantity of certain chemicals in the right environment will eventually evolve into all possible life-forms that will ever exist in the universe.
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#64Soo what happens if you're incredibly lucky and stumble across the private key for an active wallet?
If you transfer the funds out, isn't that just theft? Is "guessing" a private key any different from guessing someone's bank details?
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#65> Finding an active wallet is hard, but not impossible. Every time you open a random page, you have a chance of finding someone else's fortune.
Good to know I have a 1/2^256 chance to find a bitcoin billionaire's wallet. This feels only slightly more ludicrous than the guy who lost his bitcoin in a hard drive and went looking for it in a dumpster.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could check a lot more than 1B address per second.
Not easily, as you need to do an elliptic curve point x scalar multiplication, which takes tons of cycles on a CPU and even tons of gates on an ASIC. Please provide a link to hardware that can do it much faster...
Two or more of whatever you are using to perform the calculations? I mean it won't appreciably shorten the search time but it would double the processing rate.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Possible causes are caching or random seeding using integer seconds.
Or someone implementing their own bitcoin client and using a predictable key for fun
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#68I found a used wallet on 1337, and also a few other funny number strings that quickly came to mind.
Does this mean I’ve won the game?
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#69Curiously, 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...
the first page has almost all of them used. the first one having 7 BTC sent and received with the recent transaction in 2021-11-25 22:56. looks like its the wallet id 1. also the 0 page haave some as well. looks like someone is monitoring those address. https://playxo.com/bitcoin/1 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497m... https://playxo.com/bitcoin/0
The first address that has never been used is 61. Would be fun to keep track of over time.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're the trivial wallet addresses (close to the beginning and end of the search space). I would expect them to be used for debugging and testing in the early days.
What makes them trivial, how are they generated?
ECDSA private keys can be arbitrary strings of random bytes of a certain length (unlike RSA, where we need to find prime factors). The first page is roughly the equivalent of using a low single digit number as your password.