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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Merits 9 from 3 users
Re: OG Bitcoin Wallet Addresses Suddenly Active - Are they being hacked?
by
Poker Player
on 16/05/2023, 03:11:40 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,hugeblack (4) ,stompix (1)
It is impossible to break private key and steal it.

You are kidding right.

I mean theres tons of addresses out there so its like how could you not hit one
Because there are this many possible valid 12 word seeds:
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

And there only approximately 30 million bitcoin addresses with balance on them. Divide those two numbers and you get a roughly 1 in 11 million trillion trillion chance of finding a collision. (Now, this is not quite accurate since any seed can generate potentially billions of addresses, but you get the idea.)