Quote from: Kwothe117 on December 05, 2017, 08:58:03 AM

So why aren't people pushing around false transactions and brute forcing until they steal the BTC from someone else? ???

Quote from: Kwothe117 on December 05, 2017, 11:14:03 AM

Even straight up brute forcing it, it's still possible right?

Quote from: aplistir on December 05, 2017, 11:58:36 AM

And Kwothe117, you would not have to send your false guesses to the network. You could just check if your random guess is correct by yourself on your own computer. It would be much faster too.
Then if your random guess is correct you could broadcast it and it will be accepted in to the blockchain...

Yes, straight up brute forcing is indeed possible. I sincerely suggest that you try this. It will keep you busy and out of trouble. To make it easier, there is a public directory of all Bitcoin private keys. Yes, that site really does list all Bitcoin private keys. Get rich! Happy hunting!

(P.S., why are highly intelligent people in a Development & Technical Discussion forum seriously answering questions about bruteforcing secp256k1!? Doubly-hashed, undisclosed public keys are just gravy.)