There is no such technology in the current state of the coin, and if so, Bitcoin has already collapsed.
Topic: Is it possible to brute force bitcoin address creation in order to steal money? (Read 612 times)
July 22, 2018, 01:32:37 PM
July 16, 2018, 12:58:49 PM
> Is it possible to win powerball 9 consecutive times.
It is possible when you pay a lot more than you can win
edit: ... or if you try often enough, for like a zillion years or so.
July 15, 2018, 08:44:54 PM
> Is it possible to win powerball 9 consecutive times.
July 12, 2018, 05:09:56 PM
You don't need a lot of computing power. Here are all the private keys right here:
https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1
Your key is in there too. Think your money is safe? Guess again. It has already been cracked.
here's the address 12tLs9c9RsALt4ockxa1hB4iTCTSmxj2me contains 10,000 BTC https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1
Your key is in there too. Think your money is safe? Guess again. It has already been cracked.
would you be kind to point me the exact page number where this bitcoin address is listed
that page is a simple on-the-fly auto generated page of hex private keys listed in sequential order
Even if you do try to input those keys for a lifetime i bet you wont able to check it all. haha
July 12, 2018, 02:43:21 PM
In practice, bitcoin address creation may be brute force, but it is only applicable to misleading cipher phrases. It may just be the idea of "storing bitcoin in the mind", which is why they need so little money and why they won't be subsidized for a long time.
July 09, 2018, 04:39:25 PM
If you could brute force bitcoin addresses it wouldn't be very useful as a currency, would it? Even the (theoretical) quantum computers of the future will have a problem finding any bitcoin wallets with bitcoins in them. Even the wallets that are found are not going to be worth the energy consumed in the process of finding them. There is only really one wallet that matters and that is Satoshi's wallet. Since its easy to patch bitcoin to be quantum-proof, but would require you to move your coins to a quantum-proof wallet, the Satoshi wallet may be up for grabs by a quantum computing team, if in-fact Satoshi no longer has access to that wallet (or is not alive any longer).
If you want to try an experiment out for yourself, change your one of the seed words to your wallet. Do that 1000x and see if you get any free bitcoins!
If you want to try an experiment out for yourself, change your one of the seed words to your wallet. Do that 1000x and see if you get any free bitcoins!
July 08, 2018, 02:01:01 PM
I think you're missing the point. You don't have to find the private key. You only have to find a private key that corresponds to a public key with the correct 160 bit hash. That is 2^(256-160) times easier than finding a private key that corresponds to the correct public key.
July 05, 2018, 02:27:54 PM
In both mining and brute-forcing private keys, you are generating 256-bit numbers in the hope of finding one that fits a criteria. If the criteria is met, there is a reward. You can consider the effectiveness of brute-forcing private keys in terms of mining.
There are currently 22,268,987 addresses holding an average of 0.76 BTC each. The chances of finding one of 22M addresses out of 2160 possible addresses is equivalent to a target of 0x000000000000000000000000000000000153CC3B000000000000000000000000 (assuming my math is correct).
That target corresponds to a difficulty of 1,764,330,921,064,039,848,434,241,513,961,029,632. If you compare that to the current difficulty of 5,363,678,461,481 and consider that the reward is only 0.76 BTC compared to 12.5 BTC, you will see that searching for addresses with a balance is incredibly inefficient compared to mining.
There are currently 22,268,987 addresses holding an average of 0.76 BTC each. The chances of finding one of 22M addresses out of 2160 possible addresses is equivalent to a target of 0x000000000000000000000000000000000153CC3B000000000000000000000000 (assuming my math is correct).
That target corresponds to a difficulty of 1,764,330,921,064,039,848,434,241,513,961,029,632. If you compare that to the current difficulty of 5,363,678,461,481 and consider that the reward is only 0.76 BTC compared to 12.5 BTC, you will see that searching for addresses with a balance is incredibly inefficient compared to mining.
July 05, 2018, 10:43:52 AM
It is possible to brute force some Bitcoin addresses, because some people generate their private keys in an insecure manner. Any (non-zero) 32 bytes can be a private key. So running sha256 over a passphrase gives an apparently random, but brute force-able private key.
July 05, 2018, 06:16:27 AM
You don't need a lot of computing power. Here are all the private keys right here:
https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1
Your key is in there too. Think your money is safe? Guess again. It has already been cracked.
here's the address 12tLs9c9RsALt4ockxa1hB4iTCTSmxj2me contains 10,000 BTC https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1
Your key is in there too. Think your money is safe? Guess again. It has already been cracked.
would you be kind to point me the exact page number where this bitcoin address is listed
that page is a simple on-the-fly auto generated page of hex private keys listed in sequential order
July 05, 2018, 05:00:54 AM
If you have a lot of computing power,
You don't need a lot of computing power. Here are all the private keys right here: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1
Your key is in there too. Think your money is safe? Guess again. It has already been cracked.
I thought you have gained at least some knowledge about Bitcoin in the past few years, but as it turns out, you are standing in line with the flood of FUD oriented newbs.
July 04, 2018, 12:53:14 PM
You have to generate and hash a lot of ECDSA key pairs that you can't imagine before you can find a reasonable chance of collision. With current computing power, this takes longer than the age of the universe.
July 04, 2018, 08:55:58 AM
Bitcoin addresses are actually the 256-bit SHA hash of an ECDSA public key, so any vulnerabilities in those algorithms would constitute a vulnerability in bitcoin itself. Realistically, however, breaking this level of encryption requires a huge amount of processing power. Coincidentally it requires precisely the same kind of processing power that bitcoin mining requires and in almost every scenario it would be massively more profitable to mine than to hack.
June 25, 2018, 10:53:00 PM
i think it is not possible because when you are creating your bitcoin address, your wallet address will consist of many characters.
The brute force method will not cover all of combinations of the private key of some wallet to steal.
The brute force method will not cover all of combinations of the private key of some wallet to steal.
June 25, 2018, 09:07:46 PM
I also do not understand why they create a new address for each transaction because behind it all must have other purpose to make it, if its purpose to not be stolen the money I think it is not the reason because bitcoin is long been and until now still there indicates that the bitcoin system itself is not an easy one to crack.
June 25, 2018, 08:40:26 PM
it is hard to brute force a bitcoin address in order to steal money you have to consider things first before doing a brute force to specific address firs it takes long time to guess or to find the correct key to a specific address .
June 25, 2018, 10:48:13 AM
If you have a lot of computing power,
You don't need a lot of computing power. Here are all the private keys right here: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1
Your key is in there too. Think your money is safe? Guess again. It has already been cracked.
June 21, 2018, 09:12:54 AM
If you have a lot of computing power, generating bitcoins will be more profitable. You don't have to do that.
June 16, 2018, 11:30:40 PM
Bitcoin users frequently generate new addresses for each transaction they make, which greatly increases the number of bitcoin addresses being used to receive money.
Would it be possible (and profitable) for someone to find collisions in the bitcoin address space in order to steal money?
Would it be possible (and profitable) for someone to find collisions in the bitcoin address space in order to steal money?
hello there before asking such question first you have to understand that blockchain cryptography is almost impossible to crack because it is made to be impossible to crack and the math is almost impossible to solve the brute force attack only works if you have this large dictionary of generated "password or keys" and it is inconvenient to do brute force attack using a normal computer since this will use the maximum power of computer and if the PK is not in your dictionary and it is useless blockchain is made with high encryption.
June 16, 2018, 11:20:20 PM
all the technical discussions about this question apart the answer to your question is very simple: bitcoin was not created yesterday. it has been around for about 9 years and it had a real value for all that time (the incentive) if it was possible to brute force a bitcoin address then it would have already happened.
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