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There's a non-zero chance that any key you generate is Satoshi's.

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It is fascinating and at some point I was thinking about building a code to automatically check random keys.

But I decided against.

Two reasons. Practical and ethical.

The practical is, extremely unlikely to succeed, even less chance than with mining, which is exactly the strong point.

The eithical is, it would be theft.

But yes. It is a non zero chance.

How is that theft?

Well, taking someone else's Bitcoin because you guessed the key... Isn't it?

At least that was my interpretation.

If someone guessed my key and took my Bitcoin I would certainly feel like it was stolen.

Yes.

I saw a SN post asking what people would do if they ever happened to generate his key. Was a fun thought experiment.

Every time satoshi won a new block, he changed the address the next block he mines would go to.

So you would get 50 #BTC at most not 1,000,000.

I guess he learned “don’t keep all your eggs in one basket”

So there is a non zero chance that someone generates a key to my wallet?