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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 51 from 21 users
Collection of 18.509 found and used Brainwallets
by
TheArchaeologist
on 29/07/2018, 08:32:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (11) ,LoyceV (6) ,Welsh (5) ,malevolent (5) ,pooya87 (4) ,friends1980 (3) ,anthonytcm (2) ,El duderino_ (2) ,HeRetiK (1) ,o_e_l_e_o (1) ,spirali (1) ,vapourminer (1) ,MagicByt3 (1) ,LFC_Bitcoin (1) ,jacktheking (1) ,TechPriest (1) ,Financisto (1) ,Husna QA (1) ,OgNasty (1) ,bitbollo (1) ,dragonvslinux (1)
Hi,

As been discussed many times before using a Brainwallet is a bad idea. I ran some test myself and found 18.509 BTC-addresses based on a brainwallet which also has been used in the blockchain before.

I tried to compare my results with the results of other researchers but could not find any lists online at all. I found some examples but not a comprehensive list. So I published my own results over here: https://eli5.eu/brainwallet

Please note: all published addresses have a balance of 0 so this is not a list for robbers Smiley. There are also a lot of extra datasets I haven't used this far so I expect the numbers to go up once I use them as well (I'm in the middle of perfecting my own tooling and blockchain parser so this will take some more time first).

I love to get some feedback and if you have results to share which I missed in this round I'm more than happy to hear from you and include them.

TA