Quote from: gadman2 on January 25, 2014, 07:03:23 AM

Quote from: Nephilims on January 25, 2014, 06:44:38 AM

Quote from: gweedo on January 25, 2014, 05:41:35 AM

Quote from: Nephilims on January 25, 2014, 05:25:00 AM

I imagine in this thread I know the least about the technical aspects of cryptocurrencies and this may be a bit off topic, but when bitcoins reached $1,200 I was curious to know how secure they were, so I gave my kid a task. He had 2 hours to see how many bitcoin addresses he could generate while checking each one for a positive balance. He found 3 accounts that contained many many bitcoins, I was so tempted to take them, that I had to delete his internet history.

Yeah ok... Do you know how bitcoin addresses are even generated? Most applications have very unique entropy, so just by generating addresses you probably wouldn't get any hits. What was he using for the entropy source?

He typed long strings of random characters to generate each address.

El oh El. Troll.

I am not trolling

After seeing that, I assume it is very easy to generate addresses that contain coins and that you guys have to be aware of it. I forgot to mention he also found a few accounts that previously had coins too. But like I said, I am not trolling, just sharing my experience with the community.