Quote from: digaran on Today at 06:03:24 AM

Quote from: albert0bsd on Today at 04:11:59 AM

Quote from: opeael2 on January 17, 2023, 06:05:59 PM

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.😉

Because
Bit Range 254
from : 0x2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
to : 0x4000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Bit Range 255
from : 0x4000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
to : 0x8000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Bit Range 256
from : 0x8000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
to : 0xfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd0364141
!!NOT to: 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff