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It is not 1/2^256. It is "number of wallets with balance"/2^256.
by adontz 5y ago
It is not 1/2^256. It is "number of wallets with balance"/2^256.
- giomasce 5y agoNot that different...
- john_alan 5y agoactually its "number of wallets with balance"/2^160. You don't need to find a specific private key, anyone will do that yields a public key that hashes to the BTC address.
- ldaw 5y agoA quick search shows there are a little over 30M addresses with a nonzero balance, which is just under 2^25. That means the actual probability would be about 1/(2^135). At a million hashes per second, that means you would likely find one after about 10^27 years.