so i read all this and all that, but truly honoustly,
a lot of peeps talking about gpu flayer flayer 2 etcetera, has anyone got a hold
of such a program, to try out, work with, test. also etcetera,
great.
Topic: Private key (privkey) hunters - unite! (Read 15279 times)
It's now May 1 2019, anybody still hunting BTC private keys?
For sure there are still people who do strive and hoping to get some jackpot into those wallets who do have balances but i do thinkthat most of them completely stop yet its pointless on hunting out btc private keys that do have corresponding balance considering on the odds.
You will find yourself on finding these keys for eternity
I just started private key hunting a few days ago when I realized that BTC key generation is only pseudo random. It instead generates similar keys based on what keys have already been generated and used (this is where I realized it can be exploited). Why it does this I'm not sure, but it does nonetheless. Not going to give much more information until I make a large profit myself as I said I only realized this a couple of days ago. I've already found hundreds of keys with transactions in the past, and a couple with actual balances (dust).
Hey Cryptoneze, are you still hunting private key? I stumbled upon this thread by actually searching to hunt for private keys and its been two years since you started your hunt with the script you created. I wonder how did it go? If it worked at all. Please PM me. I tried pming you and couldn't.
The program that I posted
23trillion pupkey / s
check out my profile
23trillion pupkey / s
check out my profile
the thing you are trying to sell seems to be only working for that puzzle transaction and when you have the public key not in general which is the case of the comment you quoted and also is the general theme of this topic. not to mention that OP started this topic mainly as a brainwallet stealer!
He's a scammer and good luck to all the private key hunters.
The program that I posted
23trillion pupkey / s
check out my profile
23trillion pupkey / s
check out my profile
the thing you are trying to sell seems to be only working for that puzzle transaction and when you have the public key not in general which is the case of the comment you quoted and also is the general theme of this topic. not to mention that OP started this topic mainly as a brainwallet stealer!
Lol I mess around with Keys.lol for like 1 hour one time. I stumbled upon it by accident. I would have to say, In the little time that I have tinkered around with it. I would have to say it IS PRETTY HARD LMAO,
From the math I have read here it's probably not even worth the time. lol
From the math I have read here it's probably not even worth the time. lol
The program that I posted here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.51294948 will, when paired with brainflayer, search random private keys at a rate of about 120,000 Bitcoin keys per second on a single i7 core. That's just over 10 billion per day.
The chances of ever finding a match for a random 256 bit key, even when checking 10 billion keys a day, even if you're using multiple cores to double/triple/quadruple etc that rate, even if you're using a GPU assisted program that focuses on a small set of addresses and runs at 500 times that rate, is still virtually zero.
It's absolutely not worth the time.
Any Hunter here. I saw a lot of good hunter here. I am just using a lottery system. Like Keys.lol / Privatekeys.pw and thegalacticlottery I don't know some coding that's why I only use this website. 3 days of hunting and still nothing. Open about 60 browser in my pc and 40 browser in my laptop running with script to auto refresh and if it read an transaction it auto stop with message and alarm. but thegalacticlottery I only open 1 browser in my pc and laptop. and while searching for browser I use my PC to play games 
only the laptop is wasting energy.
So whats your conclusion? Searching for wallets that do have balance is pretty hard eh? only the laptop is wasting energy. Lol I mess around with Keys.lol for like 1 hour one time. I stumbled upon it by accident. I would have to say, In the little time that I have tinkered around with it. I would have to say it IS PRETTY HARD LMAO,
From the math I have read here it's probably not even worth the time. lol
Yeah It is 4th day now. and still running
Why don't you try to find the next Bitcoin block? There's an instant 12.5 BTC reward waiting for you!The chances of finding it with your computer are of course practically zero, as ASICS made GPU mining useless years ago, but it's still much more likely than finding a random private key.
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Yeah It is 4th day now. and still running but it's okay I just leave it like this. Because I always use my pc.
Yeah It is 4th day now. and still running
but it's okay I just leave it like this. Because I always use my pc.if you want to waste electricity and lower the lifespan of your computer hardware by putting a lot of continued pressure on them then at least start mining altcoins! that way you can at least earn something for real instead of wasting your time on something that obviously not going to work not just in a couple of days or years or decades,... it won't work for a million years!
Yeah It is 4th day now. and still running but it's okay I just leave it like this. Because I always use my pc.
but it's okay I just leave it like this. Because I always use my pc.You're really just wasting electricity. Even if your computer was able to search a thousand or a million times faster, the chances of ever finding a match within your lifetime are effectively zero. You'd have more chance of winning a (real world) lottery.
Is it possible to find addresses with balances or (more likely) which have had balances in the past? Yes: look up SHA256 brain wallets, broken key generator code, deliberately weak keys, user mistakes, etc.
Can you find them by generating random keys via a website? No. (The code I posted above generates random keys - it was meant to be a joke.
) Any Hunter here. I saw a lot of good hunter here. I am just using a lottery system. Like Keys.lol / Privatekeys.pw and thegalacticlottery I don't know some coding that's why I only use this website. 3 days of hunting and still nothing. Open about 60 browser in my pc and 40 browser in my laptop running with script to auto refresh and if it read an transaction it auto stop with message and alarm. but thegalacticlottery I only open 1 browser in my pc and laptop. and while searching for browser I use my PC to play games only the laptop is wasting energy.
So whats your conclusion? Searching for wallets that do have balance is pretty hard eh? only the laptop is wasting energy. Yeah It is 4th day now. and still running
but it's okay I just leave it like this. Because I always use my pc. 
Any Hunter here. I saw a lot of good hunter here. I am just using a lottery system. Like Keys.lol / Privatekeys.pw and thegalacticlottery I don't know some coding that's why I only use this website. 3 days of hunting and still nothing. Open about 60 browser in my pc and 40 browser in my laptop running with script to auto refresh and if it read an transaction it auto stop with message and alarm. but thegalacticlottery I only open 1 browser in my pc and laptop. and while searching for browser I use my PC to play games only the laptop is wasting energy.
So whats your conclusion? Searching for wallets that do have balance is pretty hard eh? only the laptop is wasting energy.
Any Hunter here. I saw a lot of good hunter here. I am just using a lottery system. Like Keys.lol / Privatekeys.pw and thegalacticlottery I don't know some coding that's why I only use this website. 3 days of hunting and still nothing. Open about 60 browser in my pc and 40 browser in my laptop running with script to auto refresh and if it read an transaction it auto stop with message and alarm. but thegalacticlottery I only open 1 browser in my pc and laptop. and while searching for browser I use my PC to play games only the laptop is wasting energy.
only the laptop is wasting energy. It's now May 1 2019, anybody still hunting BTC private keys?
Yeah I even seen pools that use miners to brute force private keys
Here's a random private key generator. Feed the output to brainflayer -x -t priv, or a suitable tool that takes a raw private key.
Code:
// output random hex digits as a 256 bit priv key
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
uint64_t timeuseconds() {
struct timeval thistime;
gettimeofday(&thistime, NULL);
return((thistime.tv_sec * 1000000) + (thistime.tv_usec % 1000000));
}
int main() {
int i;
srandom(timeuseconds() );
while (1)
{
for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
{
printf("%04lx", random() & 0xffff); /* not cryptographically secure */
}
printf("\n");
}
}
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
uint64_t timeuseconds() {
struct timeval thistime;
gettimeofday(&thistime, NULL);
return((thistime.tv_sec * 1000000) + (thistime.tv_usec % 1000000));
}
int main() {
int i;
srandom(timeuseconds() );
while (1)
{
for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
{
printf("%04lx", random() & 0xffff); /* not cryptographically secure */
}
printf("\n");
}
}
The point isn't to brute force in attempting to crack a single address, it's to use an algorithm that generates random private keys and the possibility is still there that on the very first try the key can be one that is tied to a large bitcoin address. I've done it and am doing it and have generated some addresses that match with already created addresses that have been used and a couple that have had small balances in them so it's not like it never happens. The only thing that makes it not so noteworthy is that it hasn't been tied to an account with 50+ btc or something, but the odds that I and others even reached one with an already used balance proves that private key collision is a common occurrence even given the trillions to 1 odds.
I find this really hard to believe, especially since you imply it's happened more than once. Are you generating truly random numbers, between 0 and 2^256? There's (almost) no way you could coincidentally generate a random private key which matches a funded address. Can you provide proof by showing the addresses and a signed message?
That is NOT what I explained, two different private keys will never link to a single address.
Wrong, there are 2^256 possible private key permutation, but there are only 2^160 possible address permutation.
Even though i never see any cases where 2 different private keys leads to same address, it's possible since there's less possible address permutation than possible private key permutation.
If my calculation is right, 1 address has about 2^96 corresponding private key.
But two different scripts can and have on several occasions generated identical private keys that have been tied to already used, and in some cases wallets with balances.
Only applies if the script uses weak random algorithm/function. Wallet these days use more random algorithm/function which is cryptography secure.
Also not true, BTC addresses can and do vary in length. There will never be two private keys that match the same address.
e.g
Two Valid addresses {
15PLdWhPDFCyAwMF78SebDAeRRMva8Tgop
1SArTJ5PBwq69x9NHdpGVcBqv9eCmYcYg
}
Also it is no more likely to crack a weak private key than a 'strong' private key through 'RANDOM PRIVATE KEY' generation, not brute forcing. We are not speaking about brute force attacks.
Shouldn't there be, theoretically, a "tipping point", i.e. mining difficulty becomes so high that it would make more sense to try to find a private key instead to mine?
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That's not what a collision is, a collision is two separate generators generating the same private key that points to the same address. Not two different keys pointing to the same address. The private key is the root of an address. The address is simply the hash of that private key.
That's not what a collision is, a collision is two separate generators generating the same private key that points to the same address. Not two different keys pointing to the same address. The private key is the root of an address. The address is simply the hash of that private key.
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address is not hash of private key, it is hash of public key. and what you explained (2 different entities find the same address with 2 different keys) is only one type of collision. the other type is indeed 2 different entities finding the same private key. the space they are in are different. the first one is in 160 bit and second is in 256 bit and both of them are huge enough to be considered impossible.
That is NOT what I explained, two different private keys will never link to a single address. But two different scripts can and have on several occasions generated identical private keys that have been tied to already used, and in some cases wallets with balances.
Secondly, It's a hash that roots from the private key, same difference.
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That's not what a collision is, a collision is two separate generators generating the same private key that points to the same address. Not two different keys pointing to the same address. The private key is the root of an address. The address is simply the hash of that private key.
That's not what a collision is, a collision is two separate generators generating the same private key that points to the same address. Not two different keys pointing to the same address. The private key is the root of an address. The address is simply the hash of that private key.
address is not hash of private key, it is hash of public key. and what you explained (2 different entities find the same address with 2 different keys) is only one type of collision. the other type is indeed 2 different entities finding the same private key. the space they are in are different. the first one is in 160 bit and second is in 256 bit and both of them are huge enough to be considered impossible.
That's not what a collision is, a collision is two separate generators generating the same private key that points to the same address.
There's no way to prove that. But that's more relevant for Large Bitcoin Collider Thread 2.0 than for this topic That's not what a collision is, a collision is two separate generators generating the same private key that points to the same address.
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