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Re: 💰💰💰 Is it possible to steal Ether from a wallet? 💰💰💰 Yes!
by
Prometheu$
on 11/06/2021, 18:29:30 UTC
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If you have a computer farm, you don't have to wait millions of years, my friend.

Ok, i'll bite... How many keys/second are you generating...
The thing you're doing is called bruteforcing, many, many, many have written tools for this and wasted a lot of time with no hits...


Ethereum is estimated to have 100M funded addresses (https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/p/ethereum-addresses-cross-100m-thats)

So you'll have to plug in your speed into following formula
(2^160 / 100.000.000) / speed (in checks/second) = average number of seconds to find a funded address

IF your tool would ever reach vanitygen's speed (which i doubt, since it's a GPU tool written in C++, not using any external api's), it would boil down to this:
((2^160 / 100.000.000)/20.000.000)/(60*60*24*365) = 23.171.956.451.847.141.650.870.193 years on average to find 1 private key (no matter which one).

EDITED: I actually just realised that in the example i removed from this post, i was scanning the keyspace, and not the address space, which is only 2^160.

No problem, friend, no problem, I just showed the way. Many people smarter than me can improve this script or use more powerful scripts to steal funds. I just gave an example. and I don't want to prove anything to anyone.