This search space is so huge its larger than finding one genome in the entire human genome.
Yes. But that's a bit extreme.
It's sort of like saying that the visible universe is larger than a water molecule. It's true, but as a comparison it really doesn't really tell you much about how big the visible universe is.
There are less than 25,000 human protein-coding genes. There are approximately 7,300,000,000 humans on the planet.
That's 25,000 * 7,300,000,000 = 1.8 X 10
14 total human genes on the planet (including all the duplicates that children get from their living ancestors).
Meanwhile there are 1.46 X 10
48 different potential bitcoin addresses.
That means that if you had 1 billion different bitcoin addresses for each and every human gene in existence in a living human, you still wouldn't even be close to finding a working private key for a given bitcoin address.
The average human being is made up of approximately 37.2 X 10
12 living cells.
That means that if you cut up all the living human cells on the planet, and extracted all the genes from every cell, and had 1 billion different addresses for each and every gene from each and every cell...
37.2 X 10
12 * 7.3 X 10
9 * 25.0 X 10
3 * 1 X 10
9 = 6.79 X 10
36You still wouldn't have even 1% of 1% of a chance of having found a working private key for a given bitcoin address.
If you repeated that same process on a million planets that were all populated with 7.3 billion humans just like us, you'd have 4.96 X 10
43. You still wouldn't have a 1% of 1% chance of having found a working private key for a given bitcoin address.