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An all private keys are in π... somewhere.
The property that a number contains all sequences is called being "normal". We assume π is normal, but we have never proven any number to be normal, except those specifically constructed to be that way (like 0.123456789101112131415161718192021...). And that's despite the fact that almost all real numbers are normal.
Just don't lookup your private key in there. This would be like giving it to the website
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Damn it!
Exactly how much space?
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That's what mining is too, basically. It's just that a mining rig can "buy a lot more tickets".
Well that's a different lottery system with much better odds than this. Technically miners could start mining by trying to guess private keys, but there's no reason to because the expected value is so so much worse.
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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
If the sum of the block reward and the transaction fees decreases, then that would result in fewer groups willing to perform proof of work calculations, and would be followed by a decrease in the proof of work difficulty in order to maintain ~1 block every ten minutes. That lowered difficulty then results in a lower cost to attack Bitcoin.
So, there must always, always be profit in running proof of work calculations. Not only that, but to maintain the security of the ledger, any increase in Bitcoin valuation must result in a proportional increase in proof of work expenditure across the entire network. It's an absolute disaster of a system.
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I've noticed that there are a few hardcoded ones on the final page, where the account exists and the key is wrong. I'd say odds are that the website is wrong, but you can always load those keys in a wallet and see if they give you control over the actual address. If that works, I'd assume it's the case that some people have used weak keys (for example, a popular Ethereum wallet would actually generate 256 bits of ent…
You must mean this: https://keys.lol/ethereum/9046256971665327767466483203803742...
EDIT: the aforementioned wallet can also be found as the 0x00 wallet on the very first page. Interesting collision?
EDIT2: it's hardcoded https://github.com/SjorsO/keys-generator/blob/master/ethereu...
The incentives are huge.