Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
gygy
on 30/09/2024, 07:33:14 UTC
Can someone tell me how much computing power would be needed for someone to hit the  28-characters "AndCausingCLimateChange6666" in address ?

With Tools like Vanitygen or VanitySearch.

That is an enormous number of possible combinations, roughly equal to 7.5 × 10^48.

To generate a 28-characters in address, it could take trillions of years on a single consumer-grade GPU.  Cry

Holy shit, I didn't even think about this. Grin

Basically zero. You can easily create properly formatted addresses, only the few last positions is a hash. When creating addresses this way, even you don't know the private key (or even the public key) for the address. Basically these are burner addresses. Noone can send the funds.
Most famous burner address is: 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 with almost 640 BTC on it.