Some people should just trust, donโ€™t verify

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I like that post ๐Ÿ”ฅ

and your note of course ๐Ÿคช

Wasn't it H.G. Wells on the Timemachine that described two peoples divided by the intelligence gap?

Actually I don't understand why he was able to do this either. If I was to guess I'd say he just created a new wallet with whatever seed phrase he entered. Correct or am I missing something?

Yes you are correct. Theoretically there's no such thing as creating wallets, you just pick one randomly and there are soooo many possible combinations that you're probably the first one to come up with that private key.

Gotcha

I even heard that all possible seed words have been leaked on GitHub!! ๐Ÿ˜‚

Tell him he was incredibly lucky and no way that works on 24 words

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Funny but that show how important education is.

Let's all raid primary school to preech the good faith and teach them young.

Oh, didnโ€™t you know that BIG EDUCATION is the problem!? That kid needs to be unschooled ASAP. If only he had the opportunity to play video games all day would he have the skills needed to fill those two wallets with sats.

Common confusion to think that unschooling means no boundaries.

โ€œWell, my Johnny looooves amphetamines so weโ€™ll wait till this phase ends!โ€

We were all noobs at one point.

Just wait until they find out about keys dot lol ๐Ÿ˜‚

https://keys.lol/bitcoin

I wonder if this makes any keys viewed by the system insecure. I'm guessing that the keys viewed could easily be added to a list that can get checked. It'd be a huge list and hard to check, but still more efficient than blind guessing.

just some? ๐Ÿ˜‰

Maybe my brain isn't fully awake, I don't understand. Sounds bad if people are guessing seeds.

there are so many combinations you can spend your entire life guessing and you will (probably) never find a wallet with funds

But they just guessed two of them right?

"guessing" literally means choosing 11 random words (and a checksum word)

the fact it took him 5 minutes to do this twice is concerning; it should take you just a few seconds to write 12 words twice, not minutes! ๐Ÿ˜‚

Oooooh

Every combination is valid so there's no "wrong" guess

There's a possibility that someone was dumb and is actually using a seed with a simple repeating spurred or phrase, like "bacon" repeated 12 times results in a valid seed with checksum. I've actually thought of looking for one...

Probably there are script that run every minute checking this sort of obvious seeds, ready to wipe them

bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon

nasty banana nasty banana nasty banana nasty banana nasty banana nasty banana

one two three fork one two three fork one two three fork

etc.

I am sure the checksums aren't all correct on those, but you get the idea.

Any combination of words would result in a wallet. The fact that there are zero transactions shows that itโ€™s not someone elseโ€™s wallet.

This makes much more sense. Thank you all.

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Poor guy came too late. Just downloaded all bitcoins including transaction history through Bitcoin Core and then pulled the plug. Don't even bother to check your wallets #plebs.

Aww, bless their heart.

oh honey baby darling that's precious

https://bitcoinmovieenigma.com/ <-- At least try to guess a seed with 100.000 satoshis in it :)

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They just need to keep checking those seeds every day until some bitcoin show up. Then they'll be rich!

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It was a little while for me to realize how seed words are generated randomly. There are no accounts. No third party controlling or issuing the keys.