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legendary
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★Nitrogensports.eu★
December 28, 2015, 09:55:11 PM
#9
I stumbled across this website earlier today .... http://directory.io/9

Is this a possible security threat. I understand there is a HUGE amount of pages, but this site has every private key on record, couldn't they make a program to filter out the keys which have available balance ??


Every private key on record?
If that were possible, Bitcoin wouldn't exist right now.
You can stop worrying about it.  Smiley
hero member
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December 28, 2015, 09:04:29 PM
#8
I stumbled across this website earlier today .... http://directory.io/9

Is this a possible security threat. I understand there is a HUGE amount of pages, but this site has every private key on record, couldn't they make a program to filter out the keys which have available balance ??


since it lists all of the addresses available it cant really do anything, if you were to pick an address thers almost a 0 chance theres gonna be money in that exact address.
legendary
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★Nitrogensports.eu★
December 28, 2015, 08:56:27 PM
#7
I stumbled across this website earlier today .... http://directory.io/9

Is this a possible security threat. I understand there is a HUGE amount of pages, but this site has every private key on record, couldn't they make a program to filter out the keys which have available balance ??


Site is down now, and I am not sure if it will be ever back. Anyway, if extracting bitcoin from random keys was possible even with 0.1% chance of success.
We would have major number of specialized farms of cracking machines running 24/7 to find the right algorithms.
member
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December 28, 2015, 08:21:58 PM
#6
Well, the site in the OP is currently down...
newbie
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December 28, 2015, 08:19:49 PM
#5
Website is offline. Whats the site about?
It was possible to browse through a few private keys ranging from 1 to 2256-1 + showing the bitcoin address on the fly using a browser. But it would take too much time to check every possible key.
--> No danger to the bitcoin user! Don't worry.
sr. member
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December 28, 2015, 08:12:01 PM
#4
Website is offline. Whats the site about?
legendary
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December 28, 2015, 08:10:42 PM
#3
I read another thread where someone claimed to have picked up some coins from one of these sites. Hard to believe and I don't understand why they're doing it. Maybe they want to drive traffic from stupid and greedy people there.
newbie
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December 28, 2015, 07:54:55 PM
#2
No. It would take billion of years to check or browse every private key. This site doesn't have every key on hard disk because it's to much. It's generated on the fly.
full member
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December 28, 2015, 07:52:07 PM
#1
I stumbled across this website earlier today .... http://directory.io/9

Is this a possible security threat. I understand there is a HUGE amount of pages, but this site has every private key on record, couldn't they make a program to filter out the keys which have available balance ??

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