Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Multiple wallets mathematically more prone to loss?
by
Siegfried
on 26/05/2014, 02:55:33 UTC
Brain wallets are easily guessable, you should move your funds into something else immediately.

Off-topic I know, but this seems to me to be a complete myth.

Chosen at random from my old Longman's Dictionary (pages opened at random)...deform lockage sedate daunt captive

The dictionary has 70,000 words:

70,000^5 = ~ 2*10^24

Try brute-forcing that  Wink

Well you have solved only half the problem. For most people, a set of words that can be reliably memorized is going to be easy to brute force.

Choose words from different languages.