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December 09, 2017, 11:36:59 AM
#25
It would be possible if the hacker is eager to do so, but it would take a lot of time for there is a low probability in doing it. Furthermore, someone can actually hack it once you've given your private key to a certain person accidentally.
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December 09, 2017, 08:56:03 AM
#24
It is possible but i would take years for a simple combination to be hacked imagine winning the lotto with 6 digits combinations there are millions of possible chances and in a simple private key will have more than 20 numbers and letters combined with a specific order. To make it simple it will be very hard unless you give away your private key.
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December 09, 2017, 07:23:04 AM
#23
It`s doesnt`t work, lol. You will search for the right combination on your PC for thousands of years. Some believe that quantum computers will allow breaking any encryption, but ... this is a distant future.
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December 09, 2017, 07:15:26 AM
#22
There is nothing that is perfect on the planet earth. Anything can be hacked so ethereum is no exceptional. We don't pray for such negative actions.
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December 09, 2017, 07:10:30 AM
#21
There is no way to forcing hack ethereum blockchain. Thanks god for that. Otherwise no one use cryptocurrencies. But someone can hack eth wallets private keys through phishing.  But this is not hack this is theft
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December 09, 2017, 07:03:09 AM
#20
talking about private key ethereum is almost imposible to hack, it's depend on that people keep the private key secure.
and imposible too if you want to hack ethereum or blockchain system i think.  
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December 09, 2017, 07:02:37 AM
#19
Wallet ethereum is probably the most vulnerable of all, not for the first time with his stealing money. My advice, don't store your coins on the wallet you are working on the exchanges, so I lost a few coins.
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December 09, 2017, 06:59:47 AM
#18
The purpose of this post is not to steal Eth from anybody. I have Ethereum stored and I thought about its potential vulnerabilities. That's why I asked.

I have an account in coins.ph and my Bitcoin was hacked and made sending transaction without my knowledge so that's the worst thing about our wallets.
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December 09, 2017, 06:57:50 AM
#17
You cant hack the blockchain itself but you can hack peoples wallets, websites etc. and still their information.

The only thing that can be hack is the wallets and accounts because it is the owners responsibility to secure the assets just like when people are keeping their money in the banks and that's one of the reasons why banks has advantages over cyrptocurrencies.
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December 09, 2017, 06:56:43 AM
#16
I think hacking someone else’s ethereal wallet to steal the money is illegal and unethical and no one should support you in this thing. Very bad..
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December 09, 2017, 06:54:56 AM
#15
I think nobody can hack any Cryptocurrencies and if when they do, they can't change the entire network at once due to blockchain verification that eliminate file purge or any kind of file or data changes in order cyrptocurrency to remain stable and secure.
Ethereum or Bitcoin or any Altcoins cannot be hacked or penetrated.
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December 09, 2017, 06:47:53 AM
#14
You cant hack the blockchain itself but you can hack peoples wallets, websites etc. and still their information.
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December 09, 2017, 06:12:23 AM
#13
The purpose of this post is not to steal Eth from anybody. I have Ethereum stored and I thought about its potential vulnerabilities. That's why I asked.
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December 08, 2017, 02:56:41 PM
#12
You need to be a dinosaur and wait for your algorithm to find a single private key. Even dinosaur life is not enough to do it.
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December 08, 2017, 02:23:57 PM
#11
Let's suppose I have a private key and I am making an algorithm that is permanently changing one character from the the private key and introducing it in a wallet. I suppose that there is a chance to get to a private key of a person who is storing ETH there. What is the probability of that?

The fact itself that you ask here this question gives an answer — no you cannot do it! However do not forget how Etherum Classic appeared – the hardfork was created to return investors their stolen by hackers money. (TheDAO Etherum project was hacked).
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December 05, 2017, 10:39:26 AM
#10
Let's suppose I have a private key and I am making an algorithm that is permanently changing one character from the the private key and introducing it in a wallet. I suppose that there is a chance to get to a private key of a person who is storing ETH there. What is the probability of that?

The probability of fining someone's private key will takes lot more years than your life time so there is no chance for getting there ethereum or other crypto currency.Even of you found the private key it still asking for passward to access the wallet.
You need to understand something the main reason for invention of crypto currency was to stop the online maoney hacking because we knows that normal fiat accounts can be easily hacked by hackers so satoshi found that something which is not hackable so probability of hacking the wallet is very lean.
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December 05, 2017, 10:32:54 AM
#9
Let's suppose I have a private key and I am making an algorithm that is permanently changing one character from the the private key and introducing it in a wallet. I suppose that there is a chance to get to a private key of a person who is storing ETH there. What is the probability of that?
The SHA256 is not randomly generated by the way. it was having a formula. You can try whatever you want but it seems to be a useless efford to do that. You may need to read more about how the SHA famiy works.
If that was working and many people already hacked the priv key from one to each other.
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December 05, 2017, 10:29:44 AM
#8
I guess you have .00000000000000000000001% success thats gonna work. And if you succeed, conscience bro. Why would you do that? For what? Work hard for you to earn those ethereums
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December 05, 2017, 10:28:06 AM
#7
There is a million of number possibilities for a lot of numbers specially with the addresses which are alpha-numeric.
You will just waste your time in doing it. And if you ever get one then you are not sure if there is balance in it.
So you will waste more time looking for another and it goes on and on.
Why not just work for it.
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December 05, 2017, 10:25:32 AM
#6
like a milion years just to find one private key with every super computer on earth. why would you do that though, i mean if that easy to bruteforce or hack why people want to use it
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