What is stopping someone from creating a bot that will generate bitcoin wallets? Eventually they will find someone's wallet and will be able to steal their coins. There are currently 30m wallets with coins in them, and 10^60 possible wallets. The odds of finding a wallet are tiny, of course, but with several powerful computers running 24/7, they will eventually find some wallets, and generate several future wallets that they can keep in a database. There are probably people that have been doing this ever since bitcoin's inception.
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Joshua Richardson
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Nathaniel Edwards
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Asher Reed
Nothing. I've already scored 30 wallets with 0.5 btc this way.
Thomas Parker
I do predict a far distant future where crypto archaeology/discovery as you described becomes an actual thing
Nathaniel Roberts
I have a cloud server running that checks millions of BTC wallets every second. I've found 12 BTC from this from a year of running this. Just started doing it with ethereum wallets too, so far I'm up 24 ETH just from 1 week of running this nonstop. Maybe if you get 1000 servers you can make more money
Christian King
Did you make it yourself?
Angel King
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Hunter Barnes
Each wallet stored on cold storage has a 24 word seed phrase combination. That makes your chances of arriving at a combination at 1 out of 2^256 or 1 x 10^77 . With 78 digits. Using the most power cloud server on earth would take approximately 2.8 billion years or so. Good luck.
Matthew Martin
absolute bullshit lol
Aiden Green
How would generating a BTC wallet turn into stealing a dormant wallets coins? Wtf am I missing?
Daniel Baker
weak fud. It would make for a good article targeted at normies though
Justin Smith
same but i found 13 BTC and 25 ETH
Ethan Mitchell
I believe cloud server user, have you ever done the math factoring in Intel's HyperThreading™ technology? I didn't think so
Dominic Murphy
So you're telling me...theres a chance?
Easton Hall
nice larp, not in a million years you'd be able to offset the cost of these servers
I've done literally this unironically using LBC, and for an entire year I have got absolute shit
my only mistake is that I was also using an rpc to check wallets, because I didn't want to spend a dime on CPU, it would do about a set of 400 addresses per query, so like an average of 1k per second or so at 0 cpu cost
Angel Sanders
Yes, but by the time you would have gained access to those wallets, the sun in our solar system would have expanded into a red giant and enveloped the earth resulting in the extinction of all life on this planet.
Matthew Fisher
link will stop it
Jacob Smith
>he knows
Eli Nelson
Go play the lottery, you will have better chances
Grayson Peterson
>be op
>try to hack bitcoin
>not securing the network instead
What kind of people frequent biz?
Hudson Edwards
>10^60 possible wallets
it is estimated that the there are between 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the known, observable universe
Jace Scott
checked
try picking atoms out of the universe OP tells us if you find the one you're looking for
Wyatt Barnes
whats stopping someone from building a bot to generate random RSA keys and trying to use them to decrypt a message. This answer is very large numbers.
Kayden Nelson
I write wallets out by hand with random numbers and letters I think of and already got 3 hot wallets. Just lucky I guess.
Josiah Brown
The best way is to use opensuse linux running on a home lab setup. You can do it will take about 3 days to start mining for wallets.
Costs for me was 3k. Opensuse has some programs that weren't built for crypto mining, but are incredibly useful.
Dyor
>Found 3.4btc & 10 metamask accounts
Ryan Ramirez
nothing that is why you off paypal
Gavin Wood
Imagine having this level of stupidity
is this the kind of people I'm trading against?
Luke Anderson
you don't have enough computing power bobo
Brandon Watson
What if number be big
Aaron Ortiz
2,800,000,000÷30,000,000=93.33 years
So with 300m wallets 9.33 years, and with 3b wallets 0.93 years?
Jaxon Garcia
>wtf am I missing
blockchain fundamentals
Evan Hughes
>The odds of finding a wallet are tiny, of course, but with several powerful computers running 24/7, they will eventually find some wallets
You'll never find 1 wallet if you ran as many PCs as you could for the rest of your life
Connor Phillips
This guy does the math on what it takes to brute forcing wallets. Cliff notes: It would take all the computing power on earth and then some + identical planets in the galaxy contributing + copies of the galaxy to brute force it and even then it would still take a long long long time.