How many people do you think are trying to crack DPR's address? Comment why

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Quote from: Harley997 on June 21, 2014, 03:09:16 PM

It is believed that he has bitcoin in a brain wallet. of some sort. Brain wallets are much easier to crack then an address with a "real" private key as the number of possibilities are much lower of what the brain wallet can be

Now that is very possible!

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Quote from: Syke on June 16, 2014, 08:00:12 PM

Quote from: Taugeran on June 15, 2014, 08:33:49 PM

Mathematically it is possible; statistically it is nigh impossible

No one has ever done it. No one will ever do it. For all intents and purposes, it is not possible.

It is believed that he has bitcoin in a brain wallet. of some sort. Brain wallets are much easier to crack then an address with a "real" private key as the number of possibilities are much lower of what the brain wallet can be

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Quote from: xstr8guy on June 15, 2014, 10:56:33 PM

Forgive my ignorance. What's DPR. Google was no help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts_%28Silk_Road%29

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i would guess as many as a couple hundred people are trying to crack DPR's address

Taugeran

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Merely reporting public knowledge. Though I see your point.

While I won't tell you how exactly; I'll just say as the tool sits now it will not compute exact, FULL addresses only about half length address matches; this is due to coding limits and the programmers choice to now include a case specific option

:/

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Quote from: Cyberdyne on June 15, 2014, 11:16:28 PM

Quote from: jimmothy on June 15, 2014, 06:49:12 PM

None because if it were possible bitcoin would be useless.

> 1000, because people are stupid.

Well now that the OP made this post showing a nice juicy address the fools will come out of the woodwork. Queue question on how to crack the key in 3, 2, ...

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Quote from: Taugeran on June 15, 2014, 08:33:49 PM

Mathematically it is possible; statistically it is nigh impossible

No one has ever done it. No one will ever do it. For all intents and purposes, it is not possible.

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Quote from: Cyberdyne on June 15, 2014, 11:18:01 PM

Quote from: xstr8guy on June 15, 2014, 10:56:33 PM

Forgive my ignorance. What's DPR. Google was no help.

DPR ran a successful marketplace website called Silk Road, and then had his bitcoins stolen by the FBI because of the US's war on liberty.

Cheers, thanks. I do remember the whole silk road thing but I didn't get the reference to DPR.

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Quote from: xstr8guy on June 15, 2014, 10:56:33 PM

Forgive my ignorance. What's DPR. Google was no help.

DPR ran a successful marketplace website called Silk Road, and then had his bitcoins stolen by the FBI because of the US's war on liberty.

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Quote from: jimmothy on June 15, 2014, 06:49:12 PM

None because if it were possible bitcoin would be useless.

> 1000, because people are stupid.

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Forgive my ignorance. What's DPR. Google was no help.

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Quote from: taipo on June 15, 2014, 08:56:05 PM

Perhaps the solution here is for people who believe they are at some sort of high risk situation, lets say for example, high risk of political persecution, to create/employ a secure deadmans drop for cryptocurrency private keys, or at least some sort of preloaded set of automatic payments that auto-donate via micro-payments, all your available bitcoin balance to hundreds of random good causes should you not report in at a specified time period.

very good idea!

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Perhaps the solution here is for people who believe they are at some sort of high risk situation, lets say for example, high risk of political persecution, to create/employ a secure deadmans drop for cryptocurrency private keys, or at least some sort of preloaded set of automatic payments that auto-donate via micro-payments, all your available bitcoin balance to hundreds of random good causes should you not report in at a specified time period.

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Quote from: jimmothy on June 15, 2014, 06:49:12 PM

None because if it were possible bitcoin would be useless.

Mathematically it is possible. There is an opencl accelerated vanity address generator available which accepts search patterns. And difficulty rises in a similar fashion to bitcoin difficulty:

In bitcoin the more leading zeros for a hash the harder it is to find

In vanitygen, the longer the search pattern, the harder it is.

Mathematically it is possible; statistically it is nigh impossible

Refer to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen for example

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None because if it were possible bitcoin would be useless.

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So just out of curiousity, how many people do you think have repurposed gpus in an attempt to crack DPR's "seized" Bitcoin address?

and for what reason?

Personal gain?
Thrill of subterfuge?
Taking back what belongs to the community?
Lottery?
For shits and giggles?

post your thoughts below after you vote.

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