Topic: Is there a way to build a wallet generator till you hit the jackpot ? - page 4. (Read 9658 times)
November 06, 2013, 06:22:18 PM
hmmm, I think I will start by running the entire script of the princess bride against the FBI wallet
November 06, 2013, 06:17:08 PM
Say you know a particular vps was used to generate many wallets , and you know all the settings of that server (ram, HARDDRIVE, MAC address,etc), and rolled back your system clock to around the time that you knew it was generating its wallets. Would that increase your chances at all?
No. Not unless they is a flaw in the PRNG. The entropy pool is filled by chaotic events like pagefaults, mouse click intervals, cpu temp, etc. The same user likely couldn't produce the same entropy pool if they tried. Now if the distribution of the PRNG is flawed then one could increase their chances by focusing on the area with higher occurance but unless it is horribly flawed that would just give you an academic speed up at best (i.e. a planetary sized supercomputer needing "only" 1B years instead of 100B years).
Still on a more general level the security of a wallet any wallet is only as good as the PRNG so that should be an area of scrutiny. If you are really concerned there are hardware RNG.
November 06, 2013, 05:59:32 PM
Say you know a particular vps was used to generate many wallets , and you know all the settings of that server (ram, HARDDRIVE, MAC address,etc), and rolled back your system clock to around the time that you knew it was generating its wallets. Would that increase your chances at all?
November 06, 2013, 03:36:21 PM
A guy who used sha256 of poem written in exotic language as private key lost his brainwallet recently, so yeah you could make your own dictionary, maybe someone thinks that nobody will think about using password directly as key or MD5 of passwd and you will be the one who will teach him a lesson about security practices. Be creative in choosing which keys to check and you might hit big. Of course properly generated private keys are safe (well until you use them with bad RNG).
Great idea. Visitor can paste in a target address, OR enter a phrase to generate into a brainwallet to sweep. The system tries a set of variations on the phrase - different word order, some words missing, letters replaced by numbers, etc.
Once people realize that any bored kid with a computer can spend their spare time attempting to hack brainwallets, perhaps people will stop relying on them so much.
November 06, 2013, 03:29:03 PM
Highly doubt it, I bet it was a simple key logger or spouse
November 06, 2013, 03:20:42 PM
A guy who used sha256 of poem written in exotic language as private key lost his brainwallet recently, so yeah you could make your own dictionary, maybe someone thinks that nobody will think about using password directly as key or MD5 of passwd and you will be the one who will teach him a lesson about security practices. Be creative in choosing which keys to check and you might hit big. Of course properly generated private keys are safe (well until you use them with bad RNG).
Brute-Force Concept #2
1. Create website that allows anonymous visitor to enter public key of target wallet (suggestions include suspected Satoshi address, FBI address, etc.) and public key of their "payout" wallet.
2. Visitor presses button to make 100,000 attempts to brute force the target wallet.
3. Visitor enjoys an advertisement while they wait for 10 seconds or so while the attempt is made.
4. If successful, coins are transferred to payout wallet, site shows garish WINNER!!! banner.
5. If not successful, site loads a new ad and invites the visitor to try again.
6. Site operator pays 10% of weekly ad revenue to wormbog for sharing this brilliant technique for extracting money from gamblers who suck at math.
That could actually work quite well. Or at step 2 propose something to be added to dictionary. 1. Create website that allows anonymous visitor to enter public key of target wallet (suggestions include suspected Satoshi address, FBI address, etc.) and public key of their "payout" wallet.
2. Visitor presses button to make 100,000 attempts to brute force the target wallet.
3. Visitor enjoys an advertisement while they wait for 10 seconds or so while the attempt is made.
4. If successful, coins are transferred to payout wallet, site shows garish WINNER!!! banner.
5. If not successful, site loads a new ad and invites the visitor to try again.
6. Site operator pays 10% of weekly ad revenue to wormbog for sharing this brilliant technique for extracting money from gamblers who suck at math.
November 06, 2013, 03:09:41 PM
Before I go watch porn, let's agree the target shall be fbi address
November 06, 2013, 03:08:12 PM
Brute-Force Concept #2
1. Create website that allows anonymous visitor to enter public key of target wallet (suggestions include suspected Satoshi address, FBI address, etc.) and public key of their "payout" wallet.
2. Visitor presses button to make 100,000 attempts to brute force the target wallet.
3. Visitor enjoys an advertisement while they wait for 10 seconds or so while the attempt is made.
4. If successful, coins are transferred to payout wallet, site shows garish WINNER!!! banner.
5. If not successful, site loads a new ad and invites the visitor to try again.
6. Site operator pays 10% of weekly ad revenue to wormbog for sharing this brilliant technique for extracting money from gamblers who suck at math.
You should probably code in a couple consolation images with inspiring quotes or "Don't worry, your mom and Charlie Sheen still thinks you're winning" that pop up once every couple billion losing clicks, just to keep people interested. 1. Create website that allows anonymous visitor to enter public key of target wallet (suggestions include suspected Satoshi address, FBI address, etc.) and public key of their "payout" wallet.
2. Visitor presses button to make 100,000 attempts to brute force the target wallet.
3. Visitor enjoys an advertisement while they wait for 10 seconds or so while the attempt is made.
4. If successful, coins are transferred to payout wallet, site shows garish WINNER!!! banner.
5. If not successful, site loads a new ad and invites the visitor to try again.
6. Site operator pays 10% of weekly ad revenue to wormbog for sharing this brilliant technique for extracting money from gamblers who suck at math.
November 06, 2013, 03:05:14 PM
3. Visitor enjoys an advertisement while they wait for 10 seconds or so while the attempt is made.
Preferably a Jennifer Aniston ad.
November 06, 2013, 03:00:16 PM
Brute-Force Concept #2
1. Create website that allows anonymous visitor to enter public key of target wallet (suggestions include suspected Satoshi address, FBI address, etc.) and public key of their "payout" wallet.
2. Visitor presses button to make 100,000 attempts to brute force the target wallet.
3. Visitor enjoys an advertisement while they wait for 10 seconds or so while the attempt is made.
4. If successful, coins are transferred to payout wallet, site shows garish WINNER!!! banner.
5. If not successful, site loads a new ad and invites the visitor to try again.
6. Site operator pays 10% of weekly ad revenue to wormbog for sharing this brilliant technique for extracting money from gamblers who suck at math.
1. Create website that allows anonymous visitor to enter public key of target wallet (suggestions include suspected Satoshi address, FBI address, etc.) and public key of their "payout" wallet.
2. Visitor presses button to make 100,000 attempts to brute force the target wallet.
3. Visitor enjoys an advertisement while they wait for 10 seconds or so while the attempt is made.
4. If successful, coins are transferred to payout wallet, site shows garish WINNER!!! banner.
5. If not successful, site loads a new ad and invites the visitor to try again.
6. Site operator pays 10% of weekly ad revenue to wormbog for sharing this brilliant technique for extracting money from gamblers who suck at math.
November 06, 2013, 02:57:23 PM
I don't think you managed to grasp the point of my first post in this thread.
I will let whoever reads this post now decide on that, I think we've answered your assumptions of it being a good advertisement for Bitcoin already.
Fair enough, since the chances are greater than zero.
November 06, 2013, 02:52:14 PM
This sums it up:
That's a great way of putting things in perspective. I'm saving that picture. Thanks
November 06, 2013, 02:54:16 PM
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It's more possible that Jennifer Aniston agrees to have every member of Bitcointalk simultaneously do that than it is brute force the key to an address.Surely the OP is trolling at this point.
November 06, 2013, 02:51:13 PM
I don't think you managed to grasp the point of my first post in this thread.
I will let whoever reads this post now decide on that, I think we've answered your assumptions of it being a good advertisement for Bitcoin already.
November 06, 2013, 02:46:38 PM
1. Gather a list of high-value bitcoin addresses. Or just use this one: http://bitcoinrichlist.com/top100
2. Dump them into a text file
3. Run vanitygen against the list of addresses: vanitygen -t "addresses.txt"
4. Wait billions of years
5. PROFIT!
2. Dump them into a text file
3. Run vanitygen against the list of addresses: vanitygen -t "addresses.txt"
4. Wait billions of years
5. PROFIT!
I really tried find full Bitcoin address in vanitygen, but it showed no progress or even likelihood to find the Bitcoin address.
Use the regex option, otherwise it will complain that your prefix is too big.
vanitygen.exe -r ^ADDRESS_HERE$
Remember, the search is not cumulative, so you are always just seconds away from a huge jackpot. Don't lose hope! Waiting the first billion years is the hardest.
regex is too slow. It would take zillions of years.
Truncating the address provides the needed positive feedback for the target audience.
November 06, 2013, 02:42:29 PM
1. Gather a list of high-value bitcoin addresses. Or just use this one: http://bitcoinrichlist.com/top100
2. Dump them into a text file
3. Run vanitygen against the list of addresses: vanitygen -t "addresses.txt"
4. Wait billions of years
5. PROFIT!
2. Dump them into a text file
3. Run vanitygen against the list of addresses: vanitygen -t "addresses.txt"
4. Wait billions of years
5. PROFIT!
I really tried find full Bitcoin address in vanitygen, but it showed no progress or even likelihood to find the Bitcoin address.
Use the regex option, otherwise it will complain that your prefix is too big.
vanitygen.exe -r ^ADDRESS_HERE$
Remember, the search is not cumulative, so you are always just seconds away from a huge jackpot. Don't lose hope! Waiting the first billion years is the hardest.
November 06, 2013, 02:40:25 PM
The numbers involved are really really huge ...
I agree with you. Using uppercase and lowercase letters, along with numbers is a remarkably compact way of representing "really really huge" numbers.
I don't think you managed to grasp how huge those numbers are.
I don't think you managed to grasp the point of my first post in this thread.
November 06, 2013, 02:39:04 PM
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November 06, 2013, 02:38:21 PM
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That could be our backup promotion.
November 06, 2013, 02:31:15 PM
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