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Re: VanitySearch (Yet another address prefix finder)
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shlomogold
on 11/07/2021, 10:19:22 UTC
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now to my question. I'm bad with large numbers. could anyone tell me the probability of randomly finding a private key wallet with transaction given the fact that that 'database' supposed to have 10e +77 private keys and there was only 1 billion transactions and I happen to find one?
or to rephrase it - there are less than 100,000,000 wallets in use and I've randomly found one. what are the chances of that?

Ummmmm, buy a lottery ticket today Smiley

I am not sure on the numbers but you finding a random page with a used wallet has to be pretty high/astronomical.


I thought somebody would say something about the lottery ))

At first it didn't even shock me, but then I started calculating, so it must be a ratio: 1,000,000,000 (a number of all transactions) to 10 e+77 or 100,000,000 (a number of all the wallets) to 10 e+77. I'm lost with all the zeros so I can't calculate the accurate probability.