Re: Brutforcing a wallet

Quote from: gweedo on January 24, 2014, 09:21:28 AM

Quote from: blodyx on January 24, 2014, 09:17:53 AM

It is not hard to find a wallet(the bitcoin address) with enormous amount of money in it.

Its not hard to find a network with enormous amount of hashing power(any pool).

So my question is; How safe is it realy? How long time would it take for a big pool to break a singel address and can it be done?

Pretty much impossible. It would take many many lifetimes over. Don't believe me try it! https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen

Here I tried to brute force this address https://blockchain.info/address/1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN455paPH better known as DPR's coins.
http://i.imgur.com/D4Buoip.jpg

lol that wallet would be worth "mining"