Topic: Scary tweet I've just read! - page 3. (Read 3475 times)
No lol. First of all directory.io doesn't actually store that many keys on their site. We have discussed this before. They only generate keys as you press the different pages. And think about it - even if they do store all the bitcoin private keys that will ever exist, you have to have so much computing power to browse through all of them. There are bitcoin colliders out there but no more than 10 private keys containing bitcoin has ever been found. Compare this to credit card fraud rates or your perfectmoney account getting hacked - it's much more secure.
I don't know why Vitalik is posting this. To spread FUD and get people to invest in his centralised shitcoin? Most probably.
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guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke.
He posted a link to that site without clear irony. That just screams "complete dickhead" from the rooftops.If only ETH was actually a decentralised project, maybe I'd start putting money into it. But I feel alone here as someone who expects ETH to go up, but isn't investing in it because it would be supporting that clown. Everyone else either thinks ETH is going to collapse or thinks it's the future - neither is true.
ETC is a much better project anyway. Decentralized and fixed supply and not in a huge bubble. Still cheap to accumulate.
ETC Is undervalued right now. Great buy.
Just a piece of advice: don't waste your time searching for a wallet with balance, you won't find anything at all. 
Looks like you have a good experience with it. 
It is a complete waste of time checking out the private keys because i am sure you wont find a single key which has bitcoins in it,since the site lacks a search function i was not able to search specific wallet address and most of the wallets displayed have zero transactions ....almost everyone got a bit of experience with it, so do I.
I'm sure you must've gone through the very same stage as well.
WTF that tweet made my heart pump for a while then i'm relieved after i read the messages below.
Like anybody else here, i searched my own address. I realized those are only vanitygen addresses btw. All the private keys start with "5". My non-vanitygen/pure random address's private key is starting with a letter and i'm sure it is not there.
Fuck u vitaliq, i hate you. Even more now.
Like anybody else here, i searched my own address. I realized those are only vanitygen addresses btw. All the private keys start with "5". My non-vanitygen/pure random address's private key is starting with a letter and i'm sure it is not there.
Fuck u vitaliq, i hate you. Even more now.
I think this is more poking fun at the page. Also I think the site itself is a joke, though tbh I can't tell
Why don't you try using every single one of them, that is so many that even your grandson will be having a hard time continuing what you have done. We all know that private keys are hard to crack, as you can see on these site, and also, if you observed enough, you can see these is a prank when you look at it's pages, the naker of these site just literally list down the possible Bitcoin Adress and Private keys of a wallet.
It took a lot of computing power to generate this database. it was clearly written there that means its clear that his program was not finding used bitcoin addresses insted it was creating new bitcoin addresses into the network. it seems very frustrating that one person created so many addresses and its just a waste now. i have seen this site a while ago like around a year ago maybe. this is basically the person who is trying to spam the bitcoin network.
It doesn't work like that; You don't "create" Bitcoin addresses. All the addresses on that site are simply generated on the fly when you access a certain page. It doesn't spam the network unless the addresses are actually used in a transaction.
guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke.
Seems like a harmless joke to me too, and educational for those not familiar with key generation.
guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke.
He posted a link to that site without clear irony. That just screams "complete dickhead" from the rooftops.If only ETH was actually a decentralised project, maybe I'd start putting money into it. But I feel alone here as someone who expects ETH to go up, but isn't investing in it because it would be supporting that clown. Everyone else either thinks ETH is going to collapse or thinks it's the future - neither is true.
ETC is a much better project anyway. Decentralized and fixed supply and not in a huge bubble. Still cheap to accumulate.
It took a lot of computing power to generate this database. it was clearly written there that means its clear that his program was not finding used bitcoin addresses insted it was creating new bitcoin addresses into the network. it seems very frustrating that one person created so many addresses and its just a waste now. i have seen this site a while ago like around a year ago maybe. this is basically the person who is trying to spam the bitcoin network.
Just a piece of advice: don't waste your time searching for a wallet with balance, you won't find anything at all.
Looks like you have a good experience with it. It is a complete waste of time checking out the private keys because i am sure you wont find a single key which has bitcoins in it,since the site lacks a search function i was not able to search specific wallet address and most of the wallets displayed have zero transactions .
That's not scary at all, many seniors do know about that for a long time.
Just a piece of advice: don't waste your time searching for a wallet with balance, you won't find anything at all.
Just a piece of advice: don't waste your time searching for a wallet with balance, you won't find anything at all.
I am not sure Vitalik Buterin is trolling or just being serious,on seeing the tweet i thought it was an old one,but damn he tweeted it today and it is a known fact that the directory is holding many private keys which are used and there is nothing to be worried to be frank,is he scaring the new investors . 
Move funds to SegWit keys which starts with a 3 and then ask them to go and find the private keys for them as well. 
All I could find there was some addresses belonging to mtgox wallets and are only on the first few pages and the rest are empty.
All I could find there was some addresses belonging to mtgox wallets and are only on the first few pages and the rest are empty.
Vitalik trying to get even more dumb money into eth.
He probobly just want to decrease the value of BTC so he can buy very large amount, and probobly to earn some bucks... If he is famous enough, he can do that and the whole ratio of currency starts lowering, because people are afraid...
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guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke.
You guys should be wary of the "flippening" and invest in ethereum. I've been saying it to my friends since ethereum was 30$ usd
They have made nice profits
Well that tweet FUDDIN' all over bitcoin is from the founder of Ethereum.They have made nice profits
So what else is expected from a competitor?
I had huge respect for this guy but know I see he s just another money hungry piece of shit simply trying to push his own product no matter what it costs.
This is why I love BTC and its decentralisation. If you go with centralised projects, there s always some asshole like this guy trying to profit from it.
This is why I love BTC and its decentralisation. If you go with centralised projects, there s always some asshole like this guy trying to profit from it.
You guys should be wary of the "flippening" and invest in ethereum. I've been saying it to my friends since ethereum was 30$ usd
They have made nice profits
They have made nice profits
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