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Re:MicroStrategy buys BTC with abandon, Tether hits $20B, Ma... by ajrw on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:24PM (#25421145)
I don't think you'd need to target specific wallets, you'd probably just generate a ton of keys and match them against any known wallets.
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Re:MicroStrategy buys BTC with abandon, Tether hits $20B, Ma... by gruez on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:06PM (#25421724)
As of today there are 68,446,700 unspent transaction outputs. Meanwhile there are approximately 2^256 possible private keys, so testing against any known wallets doesn't achieve any meaningful increase in your odds.
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