Quote from: marksanchez5544 on June 28, 2022, 08:54:58 PM

If I wrote a computer program that generates private btc addresses and then generated the public address, if that public address has a balance, and if I then imported that private address into a wallet, could I claim the money on that wallet?

How many addresses would nee to be checked before I found an address with a balance?

The number of possible private keys is a 1 with 77 zeros behind it, whatever that number is called. Here's what ChatGPT says:

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A byte is a unit of digital information that consists of 8 bits, and each bit can have two possible values (0 or 1). Therefore, there are 2^8 = 256 possible values for each byte.

Since there are 32 bytes in the array, the total number of possible combinations is:

256^32 = 1.157920892373162e+77

This number is incredibly large, indicating that there are an astronomical number of possible combinations of a 32 byte array.