Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
by codeflo on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:52AM
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Look more carefully, the estimation according to Wikipedia is 10^80, which is roughly 2^266.
(BTW, when converting 10^x to 2^x, times 3 is what I use for very rough back of the envelope estimations. Times 10/3 is actually almost precise, as log2(10) = 3.32…)
Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
by 5e92cb50239222b on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:16AM
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Ah, so it's just me being stupid, as usual. Thanks, at least now I know.
Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
by FabHK on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:11AM
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> log2(10) = 3.32
or, to put it in simpler terms,
10^3 = 1000 ≈ 1024 = 2^10
Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
by V1ndaar on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:40AM
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Nope, the rough approximation of atoms in the universe is O(10^80). Big difference!
I've always heard that even 2¹²⁸ is significantly larger than that number (which is closer to 2⁸⁰). This page seems to support that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_con...