Quote from: pooya87 on March 30, 2019, 04:08:53 AM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on March 30, 2019, 02:16:21 AM

Quote from: BitBustah on March 30, 2019, 02:08:52 AM

Does anyone know of people out there attempting to brute force random addresses (no prior information at all, just hoping for a miracle)

Yep.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1573035.0

they are not brute forcing random addresses/private keys. they are solving a puzzle to find private keys that were intentionally placed in an extremely smaller space compared to actual private key range to be found easily.

Oh! I thought they were in a fruitless pursuit for ill-gotten coins so I didn't delve into it when it started and never got the full story. All this time I thought they were a bunch of thieving bastards who would never be successful.
I might have been wrong on one of those counts Wink