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Some basic calculations (based on creating 30000 bitcoin keys per second) tell me it would take you approximately 1.2239x10e60 centuries just to get through 1%

• yen223 13y ago
  You don't have to go through all possible addresses, you just need to find one that exists, no? Although my gut tells me that's not going to make much of a difference in terms of the size of the search space.
  • wikwocket 13y ago
    The point is that there is a staggeringly large amount of possible addresses, and that this space is incredibly sparsely populated by actual wallet addresses. You could generate an enormous amount of addresses looking for bitcoins, and not even come close to likely to finding any.
  • amish 13y ago
    To put this into perspective, the universe is only approximately: 13.798±0.037×10e9 years old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe