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Re: Keyhunt - development requests - bug reports
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digaran
on 16/02/2023, 06:03:24 UTC
On github I found that  '' Almost all bitcoin addresses with a balance are in the 254-256 BITs range. ''

Is This True ? Best range is -b 256 ?


It is a probabilistic distribution bit 256 is the Half of the whole key space, bit 255 is a quater and bit 254 is have a 12.5% of the whole range, if you add those values it is 50% + 25% + 12.5% that is 87.5%
How did you come up with those numbers? 256 is two times of 255, and 255 bit is x2 of 254 bit. Searching in 2^256 decreases the chance of finding a single address/key by 2^96. I just haven't figured a way to only search 160 bit range in order to get all com/uncompressed keys. Let me know if you do.😉