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not hard to imagine if you don't understand math:

The total number of possible Bitcoin private keys is approximately:

115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936

The number of used Bitcoin addresses is approximately:

48,000,000

So, if you wanted to brute-force any used key, your odds would be:

48,000,000 / 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936

Which simplifies to approximately a 1 in:

2,412,335,706,746,879,482,170,172,892,843,054,624,393,338,332,664,416,490,405,475,573,312

chance of guessing a used Bitcoin private key on a random attempt. The numbers are so large that brute-forcing any key is still practically impossible.
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NowClip 1y ago

Wow, I’m sure you’re a genius and that’s why you’re a billionaire right now I’m sure. Your mother didn’t understand math that’s why she had you.

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BitcoinStu 1y ago

I'm sorry if I upset you, I was only trying to help you understand that guessing ANY used private key is practically impossible.

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BitcoinStu 1y ago

and to be clear i wasn't trying to be snarky. It's just a statement of fact. If you understood the math involved you could walk through it and understand it.

If you would like to learn, I'd suggest chatting with ChatGPT and ask it the following series of questions:

graph for me the probability of guessing a number between 1 and 100 against the number of guesses:

Do it again but assume there are 3 correct answers instead of 1

Do it again for the probability of guessing a bitcoin 12 word seed

Assume we can guess 1 trillion times a second and do it for a year

Assume we can guess 1000 times as many and do it for 50 years

Assume there are 1000 times more used seed phrases

It will explain the math to you and you can follow along, study some, and learn.

Math is a powerful tool.

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BitcoinStu 1y ago

And also as someone else mentioned to you, if you have the computing power to validate a signature 1 trillion times a second you would be better off just mining it because most of the 48 million keys that are used don't contain enough bitcoin to matter.

Making some assumptions we can estimate the amount of bitcoin per private key to be about 0.47 bitcoin.

You can make more than 0.47 bitcoin mining it