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Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website by adontz on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:38AM (#29636390)
It is not 1/2^256. It is "number of wallets with balance"/2^256.
Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website by giomasce on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:21AM (#29636654)
Not that different...
Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website by john_alan on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:26AM (#29637131)
actually 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.

Re:All Bitcoin private keys are on this website by ldaw on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:22AM (#29638866)
A 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.