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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Brute force private key tool?
by
BurtW
on 21/09/2013, 23:43:51 UTC
og kush420:

I have already said exactly what I want to say:
My post addresses the question posted by stating that since it will never be possible to even count from 1 to (about) 2256 by any physical means, let alone count and calculate Keypublic = Keypublic + G [and hash that result three times] it is obviously currently, and will always be, impossible to find a specific key pair by a brute force algorithm.

If you do not understand what I am saying there or disagree with what I am saying then I no longer care.  Mostly because I am a cranky old fart who believes that if you cannot be bothered to press the damn shift key so that you can properly spell the first person singular pronoun then I (notice the spelling there) cannot be bothered to answer your posts.

As far as randomly selecting a private key that collides with another Bitcoin address goes your odds are better than you think.  There are only 2160 possible Bitcoin addresses (not 2256) so smoke another bowl of kush 420 and give it a go, you might get lucky.