Quote from: PowerGlove on Today at 09:57:05 AM

Quote from: marksanchez5544 on July 04, 2022, 10:29:23 AM

Not sure if I'm allowed to post a YouTube video, if not, moderator please delete it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPJ_pGaJZlw

Video of the address guesser in action.

That's cool, man. You get 100 style points for using VB6!

I wouldn't spend much more time on this, however.

Even if you upgrade to C/C++ or start experimenting with GPU acceleration, you'll still just be wasting power (average reward per spent energy unit is pitiful, solo mining on a 486 would be more profitable).

Also, the "reward" is immoral, no? What if, by some miracle, you actually find an address with balance? Are you going to keep it? Help yourself to a finder's fee? What if it's someone's life savings?

If I were you, I'd take what I'd learned so far (finite fields, elliptic curves, hashing, etc.) and move on to a more worthwhile project.

Just some unsolicited advice from a fellow programmer, feel free to ignore

I know it's astronomically unreal, but so is the playing of the lottery, however people do win. Morally would I take someone's life savings, I don't think so, I'm really just interested in the subject.
I read up on bitcrack, so will probably take a dabble in that, as purchase of lowend GPU card is about 150$, in theory it would boost my little vb6 attempt of 2.4k per second to supposedly 25 M per sec if using bitcrack.

The whole point of this is a learning thing. I have a pc which is turned on the all time anyway, so why not run something on it, and as for the zero balances, I have chosen balances with 1000 dollars in them and upwards.

Again morally, would I take the balance?? Well I will be completely honest, I don't know, I guess it's down to how much is the balance. Again for me, it's a free lottery. Lol