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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: guessing private key fear
by
mocacinno
on 25/10/2021, 13:48:58 UTC
So this is interesting.

is it better to spread BTC on several addresses than leaving on one?

and

is it better to spread BTC on several seeds than on several addresses of the same seed?

thanks

Did you read my post? Did you try to comprehend those numbers?
It's more important to use a good wallet (with a non-flawed RNG) and make sure your private key/seed doesn't get stolen in any way (including saving on a potential online medium, virusses, malware, fake wallets, phishing,..) than it is to split up your unspent outputs... Really... If you're not afraid of dying due to a meteorite after being hit by lightning, you defenately should not be afraid of somebody guessing your private key... Be afraid that somebody STEALS your wallet file, or STEALS your seed/pk, don't be afraid that somebody GUESSES your private key.

By splitting up, you can decrease the odds of somebody STEALING your wallet/seed/pk IF (and only IF) you use different devices and wallet to generate those seeds/keys and never store them in the same place...