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Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by 1phone1 »

stavros wrote: post #265
vmception wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It get sent to your own private key which everyone else would also have trouble finding. Playxo.com wouldn't get anything out of it, anyone and everyone can have all the private keys of everyone else, playxo's operator or server wouldn't know which private key things are going to, and neither would any other human.

Playxo.com is showing you if a wallet has a balance. Before it ever shows you anything, it can clear that wallet, and that's that.

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Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by shawabawa3 »

garmaine wrote: post #278
shawabawa3 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quantum computers can be used to crack public keys for a bitcoin account yes, but an addresses public keys are only published when a transaction is made Best practice for secure bitcoin accounts is to always send the entire balance when making a transaction, and have the "change" go back to a new address

Not anymore. With taproot the key used is published on the blockchain when the output is created.

That doesn't make sense.

I haven't published the public key to my bitcoin wallet. If someone sends to my address how do they publish the public key?

There are new output formats with taproot but they aren't mandatory and you can still send to addresses with no published public key

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by smus »

henvic wrote: post #353
smus wrote: post #342

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Bits on a server representing your account balance also have no tangibility

Jeez! So, are you telling me that cloud isn't someone's else computer? Damn it.

hmm? Do you think the blockchain isn't also on a bunch of people's computers?

Re: All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

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Post by 1phone1 »

singularity2001 wrote: post #374

some even have transactions: https://playxo.com/bitcoin/1 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1PDSZN2qgFcuay1vVRxYo... is/was there a way to get vanity keys from the 'first page'? also last one: https://playxo.com/bitcoin/904625697166532776746648320380374... if a visitor to this site stumbles upon a jackpot, will the server be informed?

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