If I have one of those NIP05 addresses.

How can I make my profile look verified? Thanks

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"Yes" but a Nostr address isn't really verification, it's more of an identifier for your public key, a human readable format.

The price for an item at an auction is whatever the highest price offered is.

When you buy Bitcoin it's exactly the same situation. The Bitcoin you're buying is Bitcoin another user is selling. The exchange is essentially running tons of tiny auctions constantly to get seller's the highest price possible and buyers the lowest possible price. When those prices overlap, the sale happens.

The same way that you can't "confirm" the correct price at an auction - because the price is set by whomever buys/wins the object - you can't "confirm" the correct price for Bitcoin.

The price of Bitcoin is whatever price most recently had a buyer and seller agree to transact. That price changes constantly and is organic.

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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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Every time I reopen it, it is always a welcome surprise.

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It's a website that will generate an endless list of valid private keys and check to see if their is a balance. It's educational to show how virtually impossible what you're saying is

To guess a Bitcoin private key (256-bit number), the total number of possible private keys is:

2^256, which 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

This number is astronomically large. For context, the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is about 10^80.

Even with powerful computing hardware and optimized software, the time required to guess a valid private key through brute force would be virtually infinite.

Regarding the guessing of a 12-word mnemonic phrase, the entropy is 128 bits, so the number of possible combinations is:

2^128, which is approximately:

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

Both numbers are incredibly large, meaning that brute-forcing either a Bitcoin private key or a 12-word mnemonic phrase is computationally infeasible.