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Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by filleokus »

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?

If you go by the whole “code is law” approach talked about by some crypto people, then I guess it wouldn’t be theft?

The blockchain has no concept of people/entities owning things, in that universe the ownership of an address is simply having its private key.

(Of course in the real meat-world we have courts, non-code-contracts, and rule of law. It would probably be criminal, in the same way finding a weakness in e.g PayPal and transferring peoples money is criminal)

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by nkrisc »

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?

It’s theft, but I suppose you could claim it was really your private key the whole time. Would the other person be able to prove it was theirs?

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by quickthrower2 »

sergioisidoro wrote: post #76

Who made the website probably should have made an interception script. Or probably did... If any of the website users ever finds a viable wallet, just import the wallet right away server side and move all the funds :)

With crypto being as shady as it is, this is probably a trap to get people to look up their own keys.

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by IronIvan »

kosinus wrote: post #92
HPsquared wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what mining is too, basically. It's just that a mining rig can "buy a lot more tickets".

Make me wonder, at what point does brute forcing private keys become more lucrative than mining?

https://odysee.com/@3Blue1Brown:b/how-secure-is-256-bit-secu...

or more briefly: never

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by brabel »

s5300 wrote: post #89
sirk390 wrote: post #9

Just don't lookup your private key in there. This would be like giving it to the website

To my knowledge there’s no way to look it up?

If you know the private key already, you just need to know which "page" it falls in, which should be documented somewhere as the pages are procedurally generated.

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by patrickthebold »

HPsquared wrote: post #53
theden wrote: post #26

It's like passively playing the world's worst lottery in terms of odds, but hundreds of thousands of times every second. It's fun but the odds are astronomically low. I have a script[1] that generates a pub+private key and checks against a massive file of addresses with BTC[2]. The list of addresses is loaded in memory as a python `set` so checking is O(1), but I feel like optimisations at increasing the rate are fut…

That's what mining is too, basically. It's just that a mining rig can "buy a lot more tickets".

Yes but, mining is set up to be easier/winnable because adding blocks is necessary.

The opposite is true of finding private keys.

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

s5300 wrote: post #99
bspammer wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a rare care where "astronomically low" is actually underselling how unlikely something is.

I mean, I found 10 used wallets not within 1000 pages of the first nor last page of his website in roughly 5 minutes. I’m fully aware behind the math of finding a wallet actually holding anything… but I was fairly weirded out to come across 10 wallets that quickly. Most had their last txn out roughly 2019.

You didn’t come upon those wallets by chance. Whatever rules the site uses to order wallets isn’t unique and some other (insecure) wallet generator uses the same technique.

That or someone is actually using the site to come up with wallet keys.

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by rvense »

V1ndaar wrote: post #82
5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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...

Nope, the rough approximation of atoms in the universe is O(10^80). Big difference!

Quickly checking with Python...

2^265 2^266

So it's only 0.1% of the number of atoms in the universe?

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by temp0826 »

kosinus wrote: post #92
HPsquared wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what mining is too, basically. It's just that a mining rig can "buy a lot more tickets".

Make me wonder, at what point does brute forcing private keys become more lucrative than mining?

I mean...btc will eventually hit the supply limit. Sort of hilarious if all mining hardware was repurposed at that point to work on brute forcing instead
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