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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why are private keys safe?
by
olloman
on 25/03/2014, 10:29:30 UTC
I don't know if I'm off topic, but I read somewhere (can't remember the article) that approximately the number of possible private keys is similar to the numer of atoms in the universe, and running a computer capable of cracking a private key would require the energy produced by a star...obviously there is always luck, but seems unlikely

I believe you're referring to the image posted at the beginning of this thread.

Yeah it might be it, was on mobile so couldn't visualize images when I wrote before, sorry for repeating Smiley