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Re: is there a posibility someone could brueforce your wallet seed phrase ?
by
LoyceV
on 04/11/2023, 07:06:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by Plaguedeath (1)
Yes but it is as likely as you walking to the correct beach and picking the exact grain of sand that is the one needed to open your wallet.
Actually....... that's much more likely:

Scientists estimate that Earth contains 7.5 sextillion sand grains. That is 75 followed by 17 zeros.[/quote]
Let's visualize it:
7500000000000000000 grains of sand. And that's not only the beaches, that includes the much larger deserts too.

A 128 bit private key gives:
[url=https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E128]340282366920938463463374607431768211456
possibilities. That's 45370982256125128461 possibilities for each grain of sand.

Super computers are no match for 128 bit encryption.