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.

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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.