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SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin
- zikduruqe 5mo agohttps://keys.lol https://keys.lol is just as fun.
- logicallee 5mo agoThis is really fun, I like it a lot. It's great that it's all client-side, real, and does exactly what it says.
- sunir 5mo agoI don't get it. That wasn't hard. What do I do with the key now that I have it?
- soperj 5mo agoPost it on here. We'll all help you out.
- gavmor 5mo agoNothing much, since quantum supremacy will drive all coins to zero, but it is a biohazard. Email it to me and I'll safely dispose of it for you at a responsible E-waste site.
- dudeinjapan 5mo agoThe honest thing to do is to return the key you found to its owner Satoshi Nakamoto.
- kibwen 5mo agoSame here. I guess "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx12345" made it easy for Satoshi to remember, though.
- jan_Sate 5mo agolol. It's fun. Not that I could ever guess it right realistically but it's fun. This kind of fun thing's exactly why I'm on the internet. Thanks for sharing! :D
- FajitaNachos 5mo agoI made a similar concept, but it wasn't self hosted. I never made the front page though! Congrats. Could you add a video of the experience to GitHub. Without that I wasn't willing to download and give it a go
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- m3kw9 5mo agomaybe some quantum algo can guess every key at once.
- throawayonthe 5mo agonot how quantum computing works
- m3kw9 5mo agoit's how quantum computing ought to work
- m3kw9 5mo agoWhy wouldn't the host just send themselves the key first and then have everyone pull slot machine for them. If you do win it, you are not seeing a penny if you roll from that site.
- rokkamokka 5mo agoThere's no realistic chance it'll be correct anyway
- sunrunner 5mo agoNot with that attitude it won’t
- pixel_popping 5mo agoYeah, people really have no faith.
- FajitaNachos 5mo agoGenerally agree that most services like this would at a minimum log a matching key w/ alert. I'm not going to audit the code but maybe OP has good intentions.
- opengrass 5mo agoThere's also the Large Bitcoin Collider. Last time coins were recovered was 9 years ago. https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about
- m3kw9 5mo agowhat does it mean Loaded 21954 wallets ?
- int32_64 5mo agoA better project would be to take the exact key generation function at the time Satoshi started it and mine possible PRNG parameters.
- sciencesama 5mo agocan use collaborated list to remove the random numbers that failed already.
- ivanjermakov 5mo agoThat's gonna be a nice storage bill!
- CobrastanJorji 5mo agoLet's see...2^241 or so possible 256 bit numbers, so that's 256 * 2^241, so that's....10^50 yottabytes. Obviously we're gonna need cloud storage for all this, so let's say that's about 2 cents per gigabyte/month, so that's...2.2614 × 10^63 dollars per month? Actually, why does the site list the odds as ~1 in 5.27 × 10⁷²? That's 2^241, but it's picking random 256 bit numbers. Is it because there are so many valid hits?
- gumgumpost 5mo agoSince you're at it, if you're also curious, what would be the energy cost of trying all of them, considering the average power used by a random computer today? Are we looking at something like an average quasar total contained energy?
- thaumasiotes 5mo ago> Obviously we're gonna need cloud storage for all this You can keep a comprehensive list of "all 256-bit numbers tried so far" in 256 bits of storage.
- sunrunner 5mo agoIf Advent of Code has taught me anything it’s that interval ranges can be really useful for this kind of thing. I mean at least twice in ten years. We just need to figure out how to coordinate individuals attempts to make it storage efficient.
- sunrunner 5mo ago99% of gamblers quit before they win big. In this case, really big. I am going to be the 1%. Or should that be the 1.9e-71%.
- ck45 5mo agoYou either win or you don’t, it’s 50:50
- CobrastanJorji 5mo agoWhat's really fun is that, if you win and do anything about it, Bitcoin's value immediately crashes.
- felooboolooomba 5mo agoYes, but I think it'll back up within a year. It's crazy.
- amarant 5mo agoI dunno if I'm missing something, but I can't see the actual guessed key anywhere on the site? So if I win, I won't be able to actually claim the Mooney's?
- ex-aws-dude 5mo agoQuestion is does the dev sneak in some secret notification code if someone hits it?
- aqme28 5mo agoNo reason to--no one will hit. You have much much much chance at guessing a random number that solves the next bitcoin block and mining the old fashioned way.
- SilentM68 5mo agoHmm, maybe this can help me win the Monopoly Lottery :)
- meowface 5mo agoI'm not opposed to LLM-generated code at all, but the such obviously LLM-written README is annoying. The style is so easy to spot. At least try to figure out how to prompt it to not write so obviously like an LLM. (And no, I'm not even referring to the em dashes.)
- futune 5mo agoWhy would you want LLM content to masquarade as non-LLM content? I think I'd rather have it be obvious if people are going to be using it anyway.
- bpavuk 5mo agoignorance is bliss. all LLM text reads same-y. that way, we at least have an illusion that this is not a LLM
- meowface 5mo agoA synthesis here is to include a "Written by Claude/GPT/whatever" at the bottom but still make it read non-slopfully.
- futune 5mo agoThat does seem like a prosocial approach.
- curiousObject 5mo ago>At one spin per millisecond (faster than this app runs), you'd expect a hit roughly once per 1.7 × 10⁶² years — about 10⁵² times the current age of the universe. The heat death of the universe occurs first Alright! Now there’s only the heat death of the universe standing between me and massive wealth? I like these odds.
- gumgumpost 5mo agoThose are just the odds, but you randomly finding it in the next 10 minutes is a valid move in this universe. The silly low odds don't guarantee you won't find it.
- MattCruikshank 5mo agoQuick question - why hasn't someone 51 percent attacked Satoshi's wallets? Estimated cost of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, if no one is cooperating, is $6 billion to $10 billion. Surely the cost goes down if they get some big players to cooperate. And the reward is... $83 billion. Basically 10x your money. I mean, this is the kind of thing that we could sell bonds for, to raise the $6 to $10 billion needed. Other than the fact that you'd be de-legitimizing BTC, the very thing you're trying to steal. Or morals - them, too. Other than that?
- curiousObject 5mo ago51% attack allows you to undo a recent transaction (as if it never happened). It does not allow you to change the destination of a transaction or arbitrarily move bitcoins around.
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- sanswork 5mo ago51% attack on bitcoin doesn't let you remove coins from someones wallet it allows you to change which transaction history is considered the real one. So you could send someone bitcoin then do a 51% attack to make the chain without that transaction longest so you get to keep your bitcoin but you can't use it to just take money out of someone elses wallet.
- sunrunner 5mo ago> doesn't let you remove coins from someones wallet it allows you to change which transaction history is considered the real one Potato potahto. “You’ve got it all wrong officer, I wasn’t talking money from his wallet, I was changing history such that the money was transferred to my wallet instead.”
- sanswork 5mo agoIt's not about if one is wrong or not it's about what you can do with it. With a 51% attack you need to have a recent transaction to the wallet you want to attack and have received economic benefit from the transaction already. It allows you do to a refund it doesn't allow you to take random bitcoins from a wallet.
- runj__ 5mo agoI got a couple of hits by pressing command-R _really_, _really_ fast. But transferring from Nakamoto's wallet feels a bit like fucking with the first bootprints in the lunar regolith.
- starkeeper 5mo agoSo is this a door-knocking bitcoin robbery game?
- fred_is_fred 5mo agoIs the search space too big to effectively divide it up GIMPS-style. How do the odds look if every laptop on earth was trying this?
- throawayonthe 5mo agoliterally the same
- fred_is_fred 5mo agoIf you actually won this amount of money it would effectively ruin your life. You and your family would never be safe from a wrench attack - from criminals or a nation-state.