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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: A New Way to Search for Keys to Forgotten Bitcoin Addresses
by
NotATether
on 19/09/2024, 06:45:19 UTC
I’ve just explained why this isn’t worth counting on too much. But about a month ago, something changed my mind about finding these wallets. With the development of neural networks, people noticed that, from time to time, money was disappearing from old wallets.
I checked this information and confirmed it. So, there is some method, and neural networks may help discover it. ...

Neural networks have existed and been in use for a long time, so the fact that you are just now learning about neural nets at the same time as coins are being stolen is purely coincidence and your discovery is mostly a result of cognitive bias.

A neural network works primarily as an "agent" in that it has a directed graph, and with each node in the graph has an associated cost with it, and the agent's job is to minimize the path using different search methods and heuristics like back-tracking and things like that.

If you try to make a graph for the paths to all private keys, you will need even more storage than just storing all of the private keys by themselves in a file. Which is already prohibitive.