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Re:Richest Bitcoin Addresses by josephagoss on Friday November 22, 2013 @12:44PM (#6782334)
You could run vanitygen to guess the private key to any Bitcoin address. It might take a few billion years.
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Re:Richest Bitcoin Addresses by mrmagoo312 on Saturday November 23, 2013 @01:02AM (#6785422)
Time to find a billion computers to run it on
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Re:Richest Bitcoin Addresses by hnha on Friday November 22, 2013 @06:28PM (#6784445)
It could also take just one day if you are lucky. It impossible to predict, just like the future of bitcoin.
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Re:Richest Bitcoin Addresses by dontblink on Friday November 22, 2013 @08:41PM (#6784834)
Equivalent of a bitcoin lottery?
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Re:Richest Bitcoin Addresses by josephagoss on Friday November 22, 2013 @11:27PM (#6785210)
If you want to play the Bitcoin lottery, it's a far better idea to focus your computing power on solo mining. You have far more chance guessing a 25 bitcoin block than getting a valid private key.
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