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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 10 from 8 users
Re: There are 2^256 private keys out there: how big is that number?
by
LoyceMobile
on 02/08/2022, 11:54:26 UTC
⭐ Merited by fillippone (3) ,ETFbitcoin (1) ,JayJuanGee (1) ,pooya87 (1) ,NotATether (1) ,suchmoon (1) ,1miau (1) ,DdmrDdmr (1)
Question:  Do you, babo, believe that if you had a script that could find people’s private keys, it would be quote-unquote “legitimate” to transfer their bitcoins to your wallet?

The general futility of such an exercise is irrelevant:  What matters here is the intent.
See the topic title: the intent is to show how secure Bitcoin is. That's why I Merited the post.
If I had a script to find people's private keys, Bitcoin would be worthless. I'm glad I can just tell people to try and find a funded private key, so they can prove to themselves that it won't work.