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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Guess keys per second etc, vb6 bitcoin guesser
by
EnvrinGroup
on 14/05/2023, 15:56:05 UTC
Who told you that? 1 with 77 zeroes behind it is just 1, doesn't matter how many 0 you add behind it, the total number of keys is called N, go search for it, it is also the private key for the end range key -1.


What are you talking about?  100 is greater than 10, and 1000 is greater than 100.  Obviously, the number of zeros behind the 1 matters.

Bitcoin has approx this many possible private keys:

100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Whatever that number is called.  A private key is a 32 byte array, and that above number is how many possible combinations a 32 byte array has.  It's basic math.