Our great sponsors
-
btc-heist
Generate bitcoin public and private keys and check if they match a filelist of existing addresses that have a nonzero balance
-
WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
It's like passively playing the world's worst lottery in terms of odds, but hundreds of thousands of times every second. It's fun but the odds are astronomically low.
I have a script[1] that generates a pub+private key and checks against a massive file[2] . The list of addresses loaded in memory as python `set` so operations are O(1), but I feel like even if I were to hyper optimise this further, it would barely put a dent in the odds.
1.https://github.com/theden/btc-heist
This looks like a clone of: https://keys.lol/bitcoin/
Which runs its key generator using this open source code: https://github.com/SjorsO/keys-generator
https://odysee.com/@3Blue1Brown:b/how-secure-is-256-bit-secu...
or more briefly: never
So this is basically πfs of the crypto world, right?
[0]: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Related posts
- Daily General Discussion - October 6, 2021
- Status.im is an open source chat app, wallet and web3 browser build on Ethereum. You should leverage the fb & WhatsApp outage to get your friends aboard the crypto revolution by introducing them to decentralized tech. - Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
- What are some blockchain based projects that are ready for average user ?
- Fork question
- "Not your keys, not your wallet"