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Re: BitCrack - A tool for brute-forcing private keys
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Coin-1
on 13/06/2018, 03:47:06 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)
My machine is getting ~1 million keys per second with oclVanityGen. Not sure if it's not using my GPU or not picking optimal parameters.
Yes, your program might be useful for creating a "beautiful" Bitcoin-addresses using VanityGen, but only for that.


It's not social engineering anything. It's simply a brute-force tool.
Please don't waste your time and resources to brute force a Bitcoin private key. Let's calculate how much time you need to crack one Bitcoin-address on your machine.

You said that your performance is 9 million BTC-addresses per second, i.e. approximately 223 BTC-addresses per second. Thus the brute forcing will take 2160-23 = 2137 seconds! I guess it is more than septillion (1024) years!

Note that this calculating is very approximate, because actually the private key length is 2256, but I think it is enough to stop making an attempts to crack Bitcoin-addresses.