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Re: Private Key Hacked by brute force, Entire Wallet Drained
by
DannyHamilton
on 10/02/2017, 04:21:40 UTC
Thanks for many of your replies, this is especially helping me understand the security better.

For clarification, I am talking about 100 trillion private keys NOT addresses.

904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675
maximum amount of private keys

franky1,

I'm not sure where you got your number, but it seems a bit small to me (a bit more than 2 orders of magnitude too small).  I thought the actual number of valid private keys was:
115792089237316195423570985008687907852837564279074904382605163141518161494336

Am I mistaken? How did you calculate your number?