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Re: Maths Q1 - address to key ratio
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thirdprize
on 05/01/2021, 11:43:13 UTC

Are you asking what are the possibilities of successfully finding the private key of an address by brute forcing? If so, as @hosseinimr93 said, 1 in 2256. You can try calculating with custom computational power and see what are the odds.


Say someone was giving you clues to their private key.  For each character they gave you a couple of options eg, for the fifth position is either 1, 3, f or a.  How many options would they have to give you per position for it to be crackable by brute force?