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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What are the odds of guessing someone's private key or seedphrase?
by
digaran
on 03/11/2023, 22:50:45 UTC
Bitcoin private keys uses SHA-256, which is the number 2 to the 256 power.

Where did you hear that? I hope your youtube video is not misinformed as you are, because sha256 has nothing to do with private keys. And if want to know how hard it is to "guess" or generate a key twice, considering your wallet is using standard implementation, you can right down 78 digits in decimal and see how hard it really could be.
Your number which you can pick, must not have first three digits greater than 115.  Because this is the limit, any number greater than this would be invalid:
Code:
115792089237316195423570985008687907852837564279074904382605163141518161494336