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.
Please, post any links about the guy you refer to, because I never heard anyone to bruteforce any wallet except for brainwallets. So you say than in the future people will just bruteforce randome wallets with an alien technology, then anyone who has bitcoin wallet is in danger. If that's ever to happen people will come up with a solution to that problem and make things more coplicated so no one can bruteforce them. I won't be alive to see that tho.