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Board Bitcoin Discussion
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Brute-forcing Bitcoin private keys
by
MrSolo
on 01/03/2021, 19:35:07 UTC
Hey, i just wanna ask if someone here has tried bruteforcing random bitcoin wallets, i understand that some of you will give me big numbers of how impossible that is, but hear me, there are more than 30.4 million bitcoin wallets with a balance (source:cointelegraph), so by dividing that 2^256 by that number you still get a high number, but by studying the algos that create those wallets and patterns that may exist i think that number will be much lower, add to that if somehow you found thousands of people who are willing to brute force using a good algo for couple of years straight, then what are the chances that you maybe find a wallet with a large balance,

and for people who may say this theory is crazy and not possible i refere you to the guy who actually done just that for couple of years and found private keys of 3 small wallets.
This is like digging for gold and by technology going up i believe oneday it will be possible to brute force about 20-100 wallets each year using some crazy asic machine and a whole industry will be built around just this idea.

this is just a theory of mine which made me curious, would love to hear what you think other than no it's impossible.