You can use vanitygen to crack addresses with giant sums but it will take you a billion years
Statistically it could happen in a second tho.
Topic: Is there a way to build a wallet generator till you hit the jackpot ? - page 7. (Read 9658 times)
November 06, 2013, 02:17:37 AM
November 05, 2013, 09:52:14 PM
I love that picture. Simply amazing.
November 05, 2013, 09:46:34 PM
Incredibly easy and incredibly worthless. If you managed to get an address that someone had already generated (which is so unlikely it is relatively impossible), it would likely be an address that you yourself had mass generated.
November 05, 2013, 04:57:55 PM
how complicated is to build a wallet generator, which will generate you adresses till you hit the jackpot ? 
is it even possible ?
is it even possible ?
To answer the first part of that... no, it's not complicated at all. All private keys are 256 bits. Just start at a reasonable number (or even at the lowest possible private key, which is think is 1,) and calculate it's public key and address. Check for prior funding to the address. If empty, add 1 to the private key and repeat. Hit Ctrl-C when thoroughly bored.
You won't get rich, but it might be a useful exercise in coding key generation.
November 05, 2013, 04:17:50 PM
Well thanks for da quick answer.. i think this closes the deal "There is also a chance for you computer to catch on fire, and some of the materials to melt together into a lotto coupon with winning numbers on (and a valid barcode), but it just won't happen because of the chance is so unbelievable small (it's the same with the "click and generate another persons bitcoin address")."
I hadn't seen that one... may be my new favorite
November 05, 2013, 04:02:06 PM
Well thanks for da quick answer.. i think this closes the deal "There is also a chance for you computer to catch on fire, and some of the materials to melt together into a lotto coupon with winning numbers on (and a valid barcode), but it just won't happen because of the chance is so unbelievable small (it's the same with the "click and generate another persons bitcoin address")."
November 05, 2013, 03:55:18 PM
You would make more money putting all that computing power into mining.
November 05, 2013, 03:54:05 PM
This sums it up:
November 05, 2013, 03:52:46 PM
Mathematically insignificant chance for this to happen.
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7724/what-happens-if-your-bitcoin-client-generates-an-address-identical-to-another-pe
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7724/what-happens-if-your-bitcoin-client-generates-an-address-identical-to-another-pe
November 05, 2013, 03:47:20 PM
how complicated is to build a wallet generator, which will generate you adresses till you hit the jackpot ?
is it even possible ?
is it even possible ?
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