All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

Post by V1ndaar » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 11:40 AM UTC

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #62

Tuna-Fish wrote: post #29

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... 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...

Post by joshxyz » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 11:41 AM UTC

Post by dwighttk » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 11:42 AM UTC

the_gastropod wrote: post #59

andy_ppp wrote: post #32

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Not really because if you are travelling at the speed of light time isn't passing...

Not a physicist, but I don’t imagine you can turn while going light speed

Post by caaqil » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 11:45 AM UTC

anshumankmr wrote: post #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.

Post by alibarber » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 11:45 AM UTC

wirelesspotat wrote: post #64

Soo 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?