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Re: Brute-forcing Bitcoin private keys
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 02/03/2021, 07:57:45 UTC
do you want to say that beside private key that I am holding for my address there is around this number private keys that will resolve into my address or something else?
Yes.

if that is a fact, I really did not know that, but that does not seems as a good thing, is it?
It depends what you mean "as a good thing". Brute forcing 2160 is an insanely huge number. Even if 2256 is of course 296 times 2160, which is even bigger, it is crazy to think that you can find one of those 296. So saying that 2160 is less secure than 2256 is like saying that it's safer to keep your money on Pluto, rather than Mars. Both cannot be stolen, they are considered untouchable from any person.