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Re: I can generate a wallet offline, is it safe?
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Coin_Maven
on 10/03/2018, 02:50:03 UTC
If i can generate a wallet and corresponding private key offline, and those can fit in the blockchain when I go online

Well, they don't 'fit in the blockchain'. But they are valid, of course.



does it mean that there is a certain formula between a wallet and the private key?

A 'wallet' is a piece of software which manages your public-/private keypairs.
Most wallets use a 24 word seed to derive those keypairs (together with a counter for an (almost) infinite amount).



Can people use that formula to get my private key simply knowing my wallet address?

From knowing one of your wallets addresses (public keys; technically addresses don't exist, they are used for 'represantation') noone can calculate/crack/hack/etc.. your private key.
Thats the sense of a trustless secured system.


So the software knows a certain combination of 24 words matches a certain keypair. Obviously the software doesnt have all the possible combinations stored. It generates the 24 words and keypair using certain algorithm. Why cant this process be reversed?