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Re: BitCrack - A tool for brute-forcing private keys
by
NotATether
on 23/12/2020, 21:14:13 UTC
Hey guys,
Can i hire anyone for $80 to help me with getting this easily loaded onto Vast.ai instances

I might be able to put Bitcrack on your Vast.ai servers, send me a PM.

Basically i want to try two things:
1) load a list of passwords and check it against another file containing addresses
2) Generate random public wallets and check them against a database for a match (which im guessing is what bitcrack does)?

1) Bitcrack doesn't deal with passwords at all, it can only take in addresses to try to find their private keys.
2) Bitcrack doesn't use any database of addresses or wallets to check against, it will only try to "reverse-engineer" the private keys from the addresses you give it.

Am i correct that since this uses CUDA it processes up to 1 million or more passwords per second?

The number of passwords that can be tried is highly dependent on the graphics card. Newer GPUs with more recent CUDA versions can obviously try more passwords than older GPUs. I've seen 1080Tis and 2080s for rent at Vast.ai.