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
2^256 is of order 10^77, 30 million divided by it is of order 10^70. It's basically the same complexity for bruteforcing with modern equipment.
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,
There are no patterns. Private keys are created with cryptographically secure random number generators, if they were weak, all our communications would be compromised.
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.
Some people used some small numbers as their private keys, like 42 or 1337, perhaps as brain wallets, so if you try all keys from the start, you will find them. Big deal.