(05-30-2024, 02:55 PM)penguinkeeper Wrote: No or else you'd be able to crack every address on the entire Bitcoin blockchain. The reason it's erroring is because the amount of possible keys there can be is so extremely high that nobody on Earth would live to see when it finishes, probably millions or billions of years to crack without knowing any information, hence why I said above that you do still need to have *some* information about what the key is
millions or billions?!??!
Imagine if ALL the 8 billion people on earth each had their own computer that was capable of checking 1 TRILLION hashes PER SECOND.
In total that would be 8000000000000000000000 hashes checked every single second. Now imagine that these computers had been running since the BIG BANG, 13.8 billion years ago, checking 8000000000000000000000 EVERY SINGLE SECOND until TODAY.
Do you know how far we would have come in the process of cracking bitcoin?
The answer is 0.000000000000000000000000000000000003%
Look...
Even if every single planet in the observable universe had 8 billion people with their own computer and each of those people check 1 trillion hashes per second just like on earth, since the big bang until today, we would still only be
0.00000000000003% on the way to crack bitcoin.
These numbers are so huge we humans cant even imagine them.
here is the number of years since the big bang supposedly created everything: 13800000000 - do you see how small this number is?
You would need the whole observable universe cracking this hash together, at a speed of 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 hashes PER SECOND for the next 460,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years before we would have cracked it. Remember what year it is now, its only 2024
