Topic: Accidentally created a wallet address that someone else already has? - page 2. (Read 4257 times)

Man struck by lightning 7 times.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/inside-the-life-of-the-man-known-as-the-spark-ranger/2013/08/15/947cf2d8-ea40-11e2-8f22-de4bd2a2bd39_story.html

Irrelevant is a huge understatement, this is absolutely meaningless  EDIT: Meaningless, yet here we are.

Robert E. Whatever is also talking about a professor. Did you read that long into the article?

I say "Yet, here we are" as a testiment to the fact that "it" did happen. The spontaneous creation of life.

And now we know that it was far less probable than someone creating an already existing wallet. Yet, here we are.

Either it's a non-sequitor, or its gambler's fallacy.

Either way, its freakin irrelevant! lol.

You seem to be assuming that Robert E. Kofahl is a scientist, or that his math is based on reasonable assumptions.


It looks to me as if he is trying to manipulate the mathematics to push an particular non-scientific viewpoint.

More specifically, you say "Yet, here we are" as if the fact that we exist proves that things far less likely than the brute-forcing of a bitcoin private key can happen by chance.  Then, to demonstrate this, you use something published by someone saying that the fact that we are here did not happen by chance.

Now we see why I asked you to "settle the debate over whether there was an intelligence outside the universe that was involved in the process" before we tried to discuss probabilities, and occurrences.

http://www.parentcompany.com/creation_essays/essay44.htm




Isn't that less of a chance than:


Scientists tells me a forum-scientist is wrong. I make the assumption he is right.

The part I highlighted in red appears to imply that you may have made some false assumptions about the part I highlighted in blue.

No I don't. We were discussin probability weren't we? So, what are the odds of life spontaneously creating itself from dead materia? It's far less probable than that of creating an already existing bitcoin wallet. Yet, here we are

Come, now.  This isn't a political discussion.  Lol

Sure, but first you have to settle the debate over whether there was an intelligence outside the universe that was involved in the process.

Yup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
This child actually built a nuclear breeder reactor in his back yard at home. It produced a small amount of uranium and plutonium, but he was stopped by the "authorities" and discouraged from further experimentation. This caused him to become severely depressed and drop out of going to college/university. This often happens to genius children growing up in an unsupportive household. Geniuses are often not understood. I mean, if the intelligence difference is as great as the gulf between a human and a dolphin or chimp between an average human and a genius, how can a genius ever be understood? I mean how can a chimp understand you when you talk about bitcoin? Likewise, anything the genius child gets excited about and tries to communicate with his friends and family about is likely only to get discouragement and quizzical looks. This is more likely to be true in blue collar families and poor families than in white collar or affluent families. Guess what the occupation of the world's highest IQ man is? Bouncer. This kid who built the nuclear reactor ended up joining the military. These poor kids often never reach their full potential. God knows how many Teslas (invented A/c electricity, radio, flourescent lights, radar, x-rays, & electric motor) and Enrico Fermis (nuclear reactor) ended up in jobs like grunt soldier and bouncer. Sad.

When I have the money someday, I'd like to build a free school equipped with the latest scientific lab equipment and best professors to teach gifted children of blue collar / poor families for free. It is a boarding school so they can come from any corner of this planet. They'll get frequent plane tickets home for visits and unlimited internet access to videoconference with their family back home. Kinda like that X-men school. This would be a great way to accelerate scientific development on this planet and improve the lives of everyone on our world.

Can someone please calculate the odds of life spontaneously creating itself from dead materia? Thank you

oh,don't worry about it, just be more attentive with creation wallet address

Wow dude, I'm going to use this quote very often! Very powerful and very funny.

You can't manipulate it; it's completely safe

is it possible to manipulate a new wallet address (read: generate one by yourself and not a random one) by experts ? or is it 100% safe

Some kid got pretty close a while back. Only difference between a thermonuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor is the control rods. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

Even less than that. I can imagine a super intelligent kid, but I can't imagine duplicate public / private keys

The chances are equal to a kid that invents a nuclear bomb

That scenario is addressed in this infographic, quoted from gweedo's post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/fake-the-database-of-all-of-the-bitcoin-private-keys-587371