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Re: VanitySearch (Yet another address prefix finder)
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TheArchaeologist
on 25/06/2020, 11:20:37 UTC
Yes, but only a fraction of all adresses have published their pubK... I think it would be best to create an AI for this task.
What exactly would the AI do in your idea?

I don't know what you mean by "published" their pubK but you should know that:
  • Almost all coinbase transactions (newly generated coins) in the first two years were paid out to public key (P2PK-addresses). In other words: all these public keys are known as they are "published" in the blockchain.
  • For all the P2PKH-addresses the public key is not known, only the hash, unless the address has been used even a single time in an outgoing transaction. In that case the public key is known and once again "published" in the blockchain.

So instead of claiming only a fraction of addresses have published their public keys I would say most of them are known. But once again: if you think you can use the "published" public key in order to find the corresponding private key I have bad news for you. That is not going to happen..