Translation: Ill-informed idiot who whines that merit should be awarded by bots (!) is fishing for merit by posting innumerate nonsense in Development & Technical Discussion.
If you don’t know, then say you don’t know. I admit, the set of things I do not know is infinite. But don’t make stuff up and post it in an authoritative-sounding manner. Nobody is buying what you’re selling.
Try reading the thread. Many intelligent answers were given back in December.
This is officially the spam megathread of Development & Technology Discussion.
You might want to double check your maths...
There are 2160 different addresses.
2160 = 1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976
[...correct maths...]
The entire universe since the Big Bang has only existed for about 13.8 BILLION years. That means you'd have to continue this process from the beginning of the Big Bang until today, and then repeat that 453,508 more times!
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT MORE THAN "a few years" TO ME! (and with a lot more computing power than you were suggesting).
nice one
we don`t have to worry ... but there is a way if someday... someone.... create some ASIC kind of computer to generate 1PentaBillion addresses/second ?? ((
“1PentaBillion” = 5 billion addresses. What did you think it meant?
Although your “consumer-grade” laptop won’t be able to, there are already many computers which can generate that many addresses in a second. Easily. But it makes no difference. Compared to 2160, the difference between 1 million and 5 billion is not so impressive.
ASICs are not magical. They are simply Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, highly optimized to run one specific program which is literally cast in silicon. They cannot defy the laws of physics, much less the laws of mathematics. There is still a limit on how fast they can perform computations. Also, importantly: They need energy.
2128 is an infinitesimal fraction of 2160; and a 2128 security level is already what I call “boil the oceans security”, because the energy required for 2128 computations would boil the oceans (and more...). It is humanly impossible to perform such vast amounts of computation, and it will always be humanly impossible.
You just do not get how big these numbers are.