Here also. https://keys.lol
Good luck.
All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
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Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you check 1 billion addresses a second, and there are 100 million addresses with a balance, then it would take on average roughly (2^256 / 10^8) * 10^-9 seconds, which is 36717430630808027468154168254911183362909051 billion years. EDIT: Only 463439129036942 billion years, taking into account that there are effectively only 2^160 addresses.
Hashing hardware capability is typically measured in trillions per second (TH/s) so the math might be better using trillion instead of billion. As I understand it, the rental cost of 1 PH/s (which I think is one-thousand-trillion?) is about $10/hour. From that I think you could work out an actual cost to generate a collision!
Even taking the smaller value of 463439129036942 billion years at 1 billion/second (and therefore 463439129036942000 years at a quadrillion/second), at $10 / hour / PH/s, that’s $4.06e22, or ≈ 480 million years of Earth’s 2020 global nominal GDP.
Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Has someone done the expected cost to find a usable BTC address as well as the expected value of a BTC address? What is the ratio?
Astronomical. You could convert every computer into existence into hunting for used private keys, and run them for the lifetime of the universe, and you’d be unlikely to find even one used key.
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#165This is like when you learned programming 20 years ago and realized that if you randomly generated a 300x300 pixel image you could get a nude picture. Exciting until you learned how to calculate the odds…
Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#166This one has a more condensed ui: https://keys.lol/bitcoin/random
Several wallets with balances here, one with more than 10 ETH, what does that mean? https://keys.lol/ethereum/9046256971665327767466483203803742...
I found this a while back, but even though the public addresses can receive ETH, I believe they can't be claimed due to something like the private keys being invalid for transaction signing purposes.
Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
This guy? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/uk-man-makes-last-ditch-effo... Russ Hanneman did it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKXqZh43OH8
Oh it's even crazier. He's trying to excavate the entire land fill now. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hard-drive-lost-bitcoin-landfil...
At this point, I hope he finds it.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has someone done the expected cost to find a usable BTC address as well as the expected value of a BTC address? What is the ratio?
Astronomical. You could convert every computer into existence into hunting for used private keys, and run them for the lifetime of the universe, and you’d be unlikely to find even one used key.
What is the expected speed up if using quantum techniques?
Can quantum techniques allow one to more effectively search for a specific private key to a BTC account?
Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#169This one has a more condensed ui: https://keys.lol/bitcoin/random
Several wallets with balances here, one with more than 10 ETH, what does that mean? https://keys.lol/ethereum/9046256971665327767466483203803742...
Private key of the 10 ETH wallet isn't accepted in MyEtherWallet. Other ones are pretty much empty, so maybe the site is caching the balances.
Same thing if you check page 1.
Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
#170Just don't lookup your private key in there. This would be like giving it to the website
A variant of type your password, will replace it with asterisks mydogisthebestboye44 Damn it!
As a youngling I fell for this a couple times in my video games. Then I caught on and played along, seeing it as an in joke. Later I realized doing this provides social proof for the scammer. I still play video games and I call it out when I see it.