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Title: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: virtualdn on June 10, 2017, 04:16:46 PM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED!
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: dothebeats on June 10, 2017, 04:25:01 PM Uhh, I don't think that those keys really will do anything. I mean, the keyspace is so huge and vast that it would be a dismal effort to check one by one which has some money on it and which doesn't. Also, theoretically brute-forcing bitcoin would require a huge amount of energy enough to drain our sun's own power.
Vitalik Buterin is kinda high on some drugs of some sort. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: virtualdn on June 10, 2017, 04:25:56 PM Uhh, I don't think that those keys really will do anything. I mean, the keyspace is so huge and vast that it would be a dismal effort to check one by one which has some money on it and which doesn't. Also, theoretically brute-forcing bitcoin would require a huge amount of energy enough to drain our sun's own power. Vitalik Buterin is kinda high on some drugs of some sort. To me it shows that in a matter of years all balances will go zero. I'm not sure BTC is so safe anymore. Someone broswing all day on this could gather something by chance. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: LoyceV on June 10, 2017, 04:28:44 PM You could just show the message instead of a link. That guy from Ethereum:
Quote Retweeting for the benefit of those who haven't seen this yet: http://directory.io After hard-forking for his own financial gain, he's now attacking Bitcoin with FUD. That's just sad. When will his bubble pop? A 3000% increase in 6 months, what can possible go wrong? Since I wrote this, Bitcoin is going down. Coincidence? It could very well be Ethereum is indeed attrackting billions of dollars of dumb money. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: GreenBits on June 10, 2017, 04:38:07 PM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 I hadn't seen this in a while ;) the community already freaked out about this, it's cool. The site is 100% valid. All those key pairs should work just fine. The thing is, despite all those key pairs that got revealed on the site, there are still so many possible keypairs that the entire site is inconsequential. There are a near infinity of possible bitcoin addresses. If we deplete them, the protocol can be changed. Like above poster said, if anything this points out how robust bitcoin is. This is also why we should practice good hygiene, and not reuse addresses too much. Whip up a new one, it's the only way to stay pseudonymous. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: TryNinja on June 10, 2017, 04:39:38 PM For those who just don't believe in the safety of the technology, why don't you just go to that list, find out some of Satoshi's old private-key and buy a new Lambo if is that simple?
There are 128 private-keys per page. 904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675 pages Number of private-keys: 1.1579209e+77 Good luck finding anything that may have some value. (Don't forget to give me a TIP with your new wallet) Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: dothebeats on June 10, 2017, 04:54:12 PM Uhh, I don't think that those keys really will do anything. I mean, the keyspace is so huge and vast that it would be a dismal effort to check one by one which has some money on it and which doesn't. Also, theoretically brute-forcing bitcoin would require a huge amount of energy enough to drain our sun's own power. Vitalik Buterin is kinda high on some drugs of some sort. To me it shows that in a matter of years all balances will go zero. I'm not sure BTC is so safe anymore. Someone broswing all day on this could gather something by chance. Someone browsing that bunch of useless texts would prolly get dusts among those "private keys". Idk why would someone waste their time browsing through that seeing that it came from ETHs lead dev who hard forked his own coin for self gains. Good luck on believing through some made up shit though. :) Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: ivanst776 on June 10, 2017, 04:59:47 PM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 Lol that database is damn to large, but the most important thing that people can be victims is to search there by private key to see if their address is there or not!! I think that that the owner of that website is just joking and making people to search for their addresses or/and their private key and that could be a prank! Quote Q: Can I search by private key? A: Yes. @see API documentation. Q: Should I search by private key? A: No. I log and steal everything. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: mammon on June 10, 2017, 05:09:24 PM Why does VB think it is necessary to make this tweet?
To give clearance on what wagon he's on and who he serves ;) Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: jonald_fyookball on June 10, 2017, 05:10:17 PM Not sure if Vitalik is trolling or providing a resource.
The site is misleading. This is a key generator, not an actual Database of private keys. There are 2^256 possible private keys, or 1.15 x 10^77. Assuming state of the art drives can hold 100 gigabytes per square inch, and a bitcoin private key is 32 bytes, this means 3.125 billion keys can be stored per square inch, so a database of all private keys would require 3.7 x 10^67 square inches of area. Since the earth's surface is only 7.93 x 10^17 square inches, you would need an area equal to 4.67 x 10^49 earths. That's over 46 trillion Trillion Trillion TRILLION earths. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: pearlmen on June 10, 2017, 05:20:01 PM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! After seeing the tweet and perusing those addresses I concluded its just a waste of time continue to create panic in the crypto world so I won't add to it by retweeting. I feel he is one of those that are against the continued progression of bitcoin and thought its better he add to the quest and mission of bringing it down.https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: virtualdn on June 10, 2017, 05:22:58 PM Conclusion is: no need to buy ETH. BTC is good enough :D
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: saenko on June 10, 2017, 05:27:01 PM Uhh, I don't think that those keys really will do anything. I mean, the keyspace is so huge and vast that it would be a dismal effort to check one by one which has some money on it and which doesn't. Also, theoretically brute-forcing bitcoin would require a huge amount of energy enough to drain our sun's own power. Vitalik Buterin is kinda high on some drugs of some sort. To me it shows that in a matter of years all balances will go zero. I'm not sure BTC is so safe anymore. Someone broswing all day on this could gather something by chance. Someone browsing that bunch of useless texts would prolly get dusts among those "private keys". Idk why would someone waste their time browsing through that seeing that it came from ETHs lead dev who hard forked his own coin for self gains. Good luck on believing through some made up shit though. :) I also think that this is just a competitive struggle. And she's not very honest. I do not know where the author of the tweet took this data, but I'm sure that they can not harm bitcoin users Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Ucy on June 10, 2017, 05:32:17 PM If those are fake I guess the real intention of those behind it is to cause big panic enough to bring Bitcoin to its knee.
Those things look fake but still scary. could cause some panic if not addressed Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: deisik on June 10, 2017, 06:17:12 PM Not sure if Vitalik is trolling or providing a resource He is scaring people from Bitcoin This question (about that resource with allegedly all Bitcoin addresses) has already been beaten to death here. It should be obvious and clear to anyone with a half functioning brain that this "directory" cannot possibly contain all those pages enumerated on the front page (anyone is welcome to try searching his private key there and see if their coins don't disappear). Regarding "Vitalik", he might know something (likely not very good for Ethereum), and so he might be trying to deliberately sling mud at Bitcoin Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: pixie85 on June 10, 2017, 06:45:42 PM Vitalik has too much time on his hands and too much money. I know Russian trolling is well known and respected around the world but come on, I thought he was better than this. Also, it's about time to change that old picture, he looks like a 15yo.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: bitbunnny on June 10, 2017, 06:50:39 PM The truth is that Bitcoin may not be so secure as it seams at first glance, there are some security breaches but I don't think there is much truth in this tweet and there is definetely no need for panic.
Unfortunately every day we witness some attempts to discredit the Bitcoin and some of them are realy lously. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: RedNovember on June 10, 2017, 06:57:04 PM You guys should be wary of the "flippening" and invest in ethereum. I've been saying it to my friends since ethereum was 30$ usd
They have made nice profits Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: crazyivan on June 10, 2017, 07:07:17 PM I had huge respect for this guy but know I see he s just another money hungry piece of shit simply trying to push his own product no matter what it costs.
This is why I love BTC and its decentralisation. If you go with centralised projects, there s always some asshole like this guy trying to profit from it. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: blockcha1n on June 10, 2017, 07:09:08 PM You guys should be wary of the "flippening" and invest in ethereum. I've been saying it to my friends since ethereum was 30$ usd Well that tweet FUDDIN' all over bitcoin is from the founder of Ethereum.They have made nice profits So what else is expected from a competitor? :-[ Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: jonald_fyookball on June 10, 2017, 07:17:00 PM guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: CryptoRama on June 10, 2017, 07:22:00 PM He probobly just want to decrease the value of BTC so he can buy very large amount, and probobly to earn some bucks... If he is famous enough, he can do that and the whole ratio of currency starts lowering, because people are afraid...
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: 25hashcoin on June 10, 2017, 07:23:35 PM Vitalik trying to get even more dumb money into eth.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: freebutcaged on June 10, 2017, 08:03:05 PM Move funds to SegWit keys which starts with a 3 and then ask them to go and find the private keys for them as well. :)
All I could find there was some addresses belonging to mtgox wallets and are only on the first few pages and the rest are empty. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Mbokani on June 10, 2017, 08:16:51 PM I am not sure Vitalik Buterin is trolling or just being serious,on seeing the tweet i thought it was an old one,but damn he tweeted it today and it is a known fact that the directory is holding many private keys which are used and there is nothing to be worried to be frank,is he scaring the new investors . :D
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Raja_MBZ on June 10, 2017, 08:25:22 PM That's not scary at all, many seniors do know about that for a long time.
Just a piece of advice: don't waste your time searching for a wallet with balance, you won't find anything at all. :P Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: eaLiTy on June 10, 2017, 08:36:37 PM Just a piece of advice: don't waste your time searching for a wallet with balance, you won't find anything at all. :P Looks like you have a good experience with it. ;D It is a complete waste of time checking out the private keys because i am sure you wont find a single key which has bitcoins in it,since the site lacks a search function i was not able to search specific wallet address and most of the wallets displayed have zero transactions .Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: jak3 on June 10, 2017, 08:39:10 PM It took a lot of computing power to generate this database. it was clearly written there that means its clear that his program was not finding used bitcoin addresses insted it was creating new bitcoin addresses into the network. it seems very frustrating that one person created so many addresses and its just a waste now. i have seen this site a while ago like around a year ago maybe. this is basically the person who is trying to spam the bitcoin network.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: 25hashcoin on June 10, 2017, 08:43:33 PM guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke. He posted a link to that site without clear irony. That just screams "complete dickhead" from the rooftops.If only ETH was actually a decentralised project, maybe I'd start putting money into it. But I feel alone here as someone who expects ETH to go up, but isn't investing in it because it would be supporting that clown. Everyone else either thinks ETH is going to collapse or thinks it's the future - neither is true. ETC is a much better project anyway. Decentralized and fixed supply and not in a huge bubble. Still cheap to accumulate. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: monsanto on June 10, 2017, 08:58:34 PM guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke. Seems like a harmless joke to me too, and educational for those not familiar with key generation. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Ost on June 10, 2017, 09:25:54 PM It took a lot of computing power to generate this database. it was clearly written there that means its clear that his program was not finding used bitcoin addresses insted it was creating new bitcoin addresses into the network. it seems very frustrating that one person created so many addresses and its just a waste now. i have seen this site a while ago like around a year ago maybe. this is basically the person who is trying to spam the bitcoin network. It doesn't work like that; You don't "create" Bitcoin addresses. All the addresses on that site are simply generated on the fly when you access a certain page. It doesn't spam the network unless the addresses are actually used in a transaction. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Janation on June 10, 2017, 10:22:17 PM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 Why don't you try using every single one of them, that is so many that even your grandson will be having a hard time continuing what you have done. We all know that private keys are hard to crack, as you can see on these site, and also, if you observed enough, you can see these is a prank when you look at it's pages, the naker of these site just literally list down the possible Bitcoin Adress and Private keys of a wallet. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: fan_of_things_and_stuff on June 10, 2017, 10:25:42 PM I think this is more poking fun at the page. Also I think the site itself is a joke, though tbh I can't tell
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: mindrust on June 10, 2017, 10:36:05 PM WTF that tweet made my heart pump for a while then i'm relieved after i read the messages below.
Like anybody else here, i searched my own address. I realized those are only vanitygen addresses btw. All the private keys start with "5". My non-vanitygen/pure random address's private key is starting with a letter and i'm sure it is not there. Fuck u vitaliq, i hate you. Even more now. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Raja_MBZ on June 10, 2017, 10:39:42 PM Just a piece of advice: don't waste your time searching for a wallet with balance, you won't find anything at all. :P Looks like you have a good experience with it. ;D It is a complete waste of time checking out the private keys because i am sure you wont find a single key which has bitcoins in it,since the site lacks a search function i was not able to search specific wallet address and most of the wallets displayed have zero transactions ....almost everyone got a bit of experience with it, so do I. I'm sure you must've gone through the very same stage as well. ;D Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: jonald_fyookball on June 10, 2017, 11:41:52 PM guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke. He posted a link to that site without clear irony. That just screams "complete dickhead" from the rooftops.If only ETH was actually a decentralised project, maybe I'd start putting money into it. But I feel alone here as someone who expects ETH to go up, but isn't investing in it because it would be supporting that clown. Everyone else either thinks ETH is going to collapse or thinks it's the future - neither is true. ETC is a much better project anyway. Decentralized and fixed supply and not in a huge bubble. Still cheap to accumulate. ETC Is undervalued right now. Great buy. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: xypos on June 10, 2017, 11:45:23 PM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 No lol. First of all directory.io doesn't actually store that many keys on their site. We have discussed this before. They only generate keys as you press the different pages. And think about it - even if they do store all the bitcoin private keys that will ever exist, you have to have so much computing power to browse through all of them. There are bitcoin colliders out there but no more than 10 private keys containing bitcoin has ever been found. Compare this to credit card fraud rates or your perfectmoney account getting hacked - it's much more secure. I don't know why Vitalik is posting this. To spread FUD and get people to invest in his centralised shitcoin? Most probably. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: alani123 on June 10, 2017, 11:48:20 PM Here's the deal, this website supposedely contains all possible private keys for ONE address. It'd be impossible to skim it to find the key of it. Your chances of doing so are close to zero.
Thing is through, it's a nice way to visualize the impossibility of guessing the private key of an address. But really nothing more than that! Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: xypos on June 11, 2017, 12:22:06 AM Here's the deal, this website supposedely contains all possible private keys for ONE address. It'd be impossible to skim it to find the key of it. Your chances of doing so are close to zero. Thing is through, it's a nice way to visualize the impossibility of guessing the private key of an address. But really nothing more than that! Exactly - this site is nothing more than a service like bitaddress. It generates a bitcoin address and private keys on the spot. In fact if you are willing to take the risk you could probably go to a page in the middle somewhere, get a private key and address and start using it(do it at your own risk because the code is unaudited). No way they were going to store all the database of bitcoin private keys in one website. It's misleading as hell. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Yuuto on June 11, 2017, 02:22:48 AM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 No, this site isn't even new. It's been around since at least 2015 which was the first time i saw it. I don't blame you for freaking out, i thought that bitcoin was hacked as well. Why is Mr. Buterin mentioning it now? Is he trying to spread FUD and get people to invest in Ethereum? Probably. This is nothing new and nothing to worry about - to go through this so called "database" will take thousands of centuries with current technology at least. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: deisik on June 11, 2017, 05:42:49 AM guys calm down on Vitalik -- I seriously doubt he is trying to FUD. It's not like anyone would take this seriously... and he has $100M. It's just a joke. Seems like a harmless joke to me too, and educational for those not familiar with key generation It would be harmless if it wasn't posted by Bitcoin's first competitor But since it is, people are taking it exactly as that, i.e. as FUD intended at slinging mud at Bitcoin. The boy is certainly too young to understand such things, and understand that it will work against his coin in the long run. As the saying goes, when you say what you think, think what you say. I'm curious why people would ever want to put their money in this coin given its centralized nature and governance by someone with a 15 year old's mentality (apart from speculating, of course) Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: mindrust on June 11, 2017, 09:24:52 AM What if people import every private key there is (or as many as they can) into their electrum wallets and wait?
Isn't that dangerous? I tried to import them and it is easy as hell. Select all in the page>import priv keys electrum, that's it. You won't have to check them by one by and if some unlucky basturd uses the address in the future... :( Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Winner on June 11, 2017, 09:52:27 AM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! From what I remember there was a person on this forum that posted that same website that is in the Tweet when it was 2015 or so. There was a few people talking about it though the list inside of that directory has a bunch of addresses yet the private keys didn't match the address that it was linked to.https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 I am not sure if the website changed over the years, the odds are it didn't so this could just be a joke from Vitalik or fud so his project could get more recognition. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: buwaytress on June 11, 2017, 09:57:37 AM You'd think that industry experts are from a different cut of cloth. That we're not the same sort of people who believe Facebook Times and Whatsapp Tribune just because it's out there. At best it was an irresponsible tweet. At worst, it displays just the sort of common gullibility we don't want to believe industry experts share with the rest of us.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: LFC_Bitcoin on June 11, 2017, 10:37:52 AM Nothing to worry about, he's clearly trying to create FUD in an attempt to lower the bitcoin price & try to get a % of investors to jump on his ETH train.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: jorneyflair on June 11, 2017, 10:45:26 AM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 It's not scary at all. It's actually been there for a while now and nobody really pays attention to it because honestly it's something that doesn't affect bitcoin at all nor does it do anything - apart from scaring newbies i guess. Quote Read this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=354518.msg3794536#msg3794536 I'm not sure what the purpose of that site is, unless it's a joke. It isn't a database (that would be impossible), it's generating the pages in response to queries. So possibly an attempt at a scam, as in you look for your private key, and the holder of the list uses the generated pages to narrow down the possible addresses that have actually been used (there are 2^160 possible addresses, or 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976). Since people have trouble putting that in perspective, there are only 2^63 grains of sand on all the beaches of Earth. The total number of bitcoin addresses in use is so much smaller than the amount of possible addresses, that something like this is completely and utterly useless, and it would also be trivial to expand the number of possible addresses in the future. I laughed when I saw that website, cause I just know people who don't know the math are furiously putting page numbers hoping to find one Wink. You'll likely witness the heat death of the universe before that happens. Searching through that 'database' or so called database will only waste your time. The chances of you finding a collision is no better than if you just created a bunch of new addresses from your desktop client, the odds are astronomical. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Zadicar on June 11, 2017, 10:46:33 AM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! True or Not, i would still believe that those private keys are valid(didnt try to enter one) and what the heck on how many private keys listed there and i did try to search mine and i would say it would take me years :)https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 Theres nothing to be worried about and only newbie would really be scared out of this tweet thats somehow impossible.Creating fuds just to dump bitcoins price.Nice try though. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: anheqiaobei on June 11, 2017, 01:18:47 PM Ethereum is better than bitcoin？practical application？
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: AjithBtc on June 11, 2017, 01:27:41 PM Nothing to worry about, he's clearly trying to create FUD in an attempt to lower the bitcoin price & try to get a % of investors to jump on his ETH train. That's true, it's a form of FUD that's been created to make users move towards ethereum. This year beginning onwards ethereum has grown in higher percentage, so now this too adds an additional user base to make bitcoin decrease in value and ETH reach higher.Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: isen on June 11, 2017, 01:59:23 PM I am not surprised by his actions, Vitalik would do anything to promote his centralised shitcoin and spread FUD against BTC.Unfortunately for him only a bunch of newbies will get scared and run away, the majority of Bitcoin users are aware of it and will keep ignoring him.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Qartada on June 11, 2017, 02:07:35 PM What if people import every private key there is (or as many as they can) into their electrum wallets and wait? I don't think you understand what the site actually is. The site isn't a database (read the FAQ at the bottom), it's just a generator of all the possible private keys that could exist. Isn't that dangerous? I tried to import them and it is easy as hell. Select all in the page>import priv keys electrum, that's it. You won't have to check them by one by and if some unlucky basturd uses the address in the future... :( The point is to make people see just how many private keys could exist. The first few might have some funds because of poorly created wallets or something, but go in 50 pages or so and see if any of the addresses listed in there have funds in them. They don't, because it's impossibly difficult to search through that many possibilities even with the most powerful computers in the world. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Stedsm on June 11, 2017, 02:42:45 PM I seriously don't think that if a guy comes up and says Blah! Blah! Blah! about bitcoins, people would get scared enough knowingly that he's an opponent and a dev of one of the most competing coins available in the markets over Bitcoins. He wants to doom Bitcoins and by dragging everyone's attention through this, Vitalik my boy, if you think that you are successful in getting it dumped the way people do with ETH, think again my boy. My two cents for ya!
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: mindrust on June 11, 2017, 02:51:06 PM I seriously don't think that if a guy comes up and says Blah! Blah! Blah! about bitcoins, people would get scared enough knowingly that he's an opponent and a dev of one of the most competing coins available in the markets over Bitcoins. He wants to doom Bitcoins and by dragging everyone's attention through this, Vitalik my boy, if you think that you are successful in getting it dumped the way people do with ETH, think again my boy. My two cents for ya! If that twit post has no meaning or whatsoever and it is pure FUD... Than this vitaliq dude is either mentally disabled or... retarded. Or both. And if that's true how the hell he wrote eth code in the first place? I don't think microsoft would do business with a retard. He even met putin. If he is retarded, eth should fail like no-one ever did. or is he telling the truth? ;D Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: eddie13 on June 11, 2017, 02:54:12 PM VB just made a horses ass out of himself with that one..
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Stedsm on June 11, 2017, 02:56:37 PM I seriously don't think that if a guy comes up and says Blah! Blah! Blah! about bitcoins, people would get scared enough knowingly that he's an opponent and a dev of one of the most competing coins available in the markets over Bitcoins. He wants to doom Bitcoins and by dragging everyone's attention through this, Vitalik my boy, if you think that you are successful in getting it dumped the way people do with ETH, think again my boy. My two cents for ya! If that twit post has no meaning or whatsoever and it is pure FUD... Than this vitaliq dude is either mentally disabled or... retarded. Or both. And if that's true how the hell he wrote eth code in the first place? I don't think microsoft would do business with a retard. He even met putin. If he is retarded, eth should fail like no-one ever did. or is he telling the truth? ;D Truth? If yes, then I think at the first place, you should be worried about your own wallets being decrypted or got your private key as well as coins stolen. That was a complete shitty post, because Bill Gates said that Bitcoin is better than currency, do you think a multi-billionaire like him is stupid enough to say that? Even if someone really tries hard with all their "super-powers" to find an address with something in it, it would not take years, but light-years to find one with some coins in it. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: MetalGear on June 11, 2017, 03:04:20 PM The most scary tweet that I have read is the tweet of one of my friend's friend that he says that he is s being attacked by the demons. And that he is not able to inject the happenings in hos life and he want to give up.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: haroldtee on June 11, 2017, 03:14:49 PM Seriously? 904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675 pages of Bitcoin private key database? LOL. I'd be damned. This is a typical stupid stunt to pull when you are jobless. I can't even expect a sane human in his or her right sense to believe this or get scared. Moreover, that dude need to take a chill pill.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Xester on June 11, 2017, 03:20:09 PM Why would take a time reading that nonsense article. We know bitcoins as far as they do. And it is hard to believe that it would crash from that time. And is the first and well known digital currency so it is very impossible. Maybe they want is to have some dip on other cryptocurrency that is why they are making that hoax news.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: iv4n on June 11, 2017, 03:25:24 PM This is very old story, I remember this from more then 1 and a half years ago. But even then there was explanation about this, so there is now, someone is just scaring noobs like in one comment from this tweet "Vitalik attempting to scare n00bs who don't understand how large the key space actually is. Kind of irresponsible to tweet without context." Great comment, before posting something make sure that you have all the facts, just posting something without any thinking and checking is irresponsible. Most funny part is this is not even new prank, someone repeated an old joke.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: darkangel on June 11, 2017, 03:28:51 PM Why would take a time reading that nonsense article. We know bitcoins as far as they do. And it is hard to believe that it would crash from that time. And is the first and well known digital currency so it is very impossible. Maybe they want is to have some dip on other cryptocurrency that is why they are making that hoax news. I do not think it makes no sense, whether it's accurate or not, reading it also gives me some useful information, do not underestimate it. In part, they give the right ideas. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Avametra on June 11, 2017, 03:31:35 PM Who from the forum tried to use this data in order to access the wallet?
Just for the sake of interest? Now if at least one person gets such access, then I'll start worrying about my coins Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: GideonGono on June 11, 2017, 03:31:51 PM Seriously? 904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675 pages of Bitcoin private key database? LOL. I'd be damned. This is a typical stupid stunt to pull when you are jobless. I can't even expect a sane human in his or her right sense to believe this or get scared. Moreover, that dude need to take a chill pill. And Myetherwallet also replied in Vitalik's tweet that it can also be released like in the same case with Eth and here's their faq https://myetherwallet.groovehq.com/knowledge_base/topics/couldnt-everybody-put-in-random-private-keys-look-for-a-balance-and-send-to-their-own-address I would say that this is a post that will make stupid people panic and I suggest to never try to search yours there because the admin or somewhat of that site might review the search log. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: mk4 on June 11, 2017, 03:55:48 PM That's only very few of all the bitcoin wallets out there. To connect those keys to a bitcoin wallet is like finding a needle in a whole planet.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Skarner21 on June 11, 2017, 04:02:06 PM I heard directory.io before and i think its just a joke they don't even have a search bar to find your address you are just wasting your time if you are looking for your own private key there it takes too much time to find due to none search bar..
If this is true many people not trusting bitcoin to hold their money for a long time.. But i believe to the owner that he can keep this domain alive for a long time. . Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: socks435 on June 11, 2017, 04:08:13 PM Such a large number of private keys and check all of those bitcoin but upon checking it has a new transaction few days ago it means the bitcoin address was used before i saw one that has 4 btc receive but no remaining balance.. i think this is just a dump bitcoin addresses after use they are dumping it for the sake of their anonymity..
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: deisik on June 11, 2017, 04:14:53 PM That was a complete shitty post, because Bill Gates said that Bitcoin is better than currency, do you think a multi-billionaire like him is stupid enough to say that? Even if someone really tries hard with all their "super-powers" to find an address with something in it, it would not take years, but light-years to find one with some coins in it. As they say, talk is cheap Whether Bill Gates is stupid or not is irrelevant since he may say anything he pleases, it won't matter a thing until he invests a few billion dollars in Bitcoin himself ("don't believe anything you hear"). So far he prefers dollars, not bitcoins, and I don't remember that Microsoft was accepting bitcoins as payment for their software. There have been various as well as numerous rumors, someone even claimed that he had seen some code which was assumed to work with Bitcoin, but the thing is Microsoft is not involved with Bitcoin in any meaningful way Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: halych on June 11, 2017, 04:16:37 PM I heard directory.io before and i think its just a joke they don't even have a search bar to find your address you are just wasting your time if you are looking for your own private key there it takes too much time to find due to none search bar.. If this is true many people not trusting bitcoin to hold their money for a long time.. But i believe to the owner that he can keep this domain alive for a long time. . Because of such tweets and so many beginners stop trusting bitcoin. But no one can provide evidence that this information is true. Most likely the author of the tweet just joked Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: KingdomHearts on June 12, 2017, 09:43:59 PM Well according to my understanding there is no reality in this. I agree with you that this is just a fud and nothing else. How could it be possible? People still talking about the Bitcoin like this just to create a doubt wave so that they can get some benefits of it, But I don’t think it will really work because most of the people related to the Bitcoin knows about the truth and the strength of the Bitcoin.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Celsiuss on June 12, 2017, 10:43:55 PM Guys get real, take a look at the page number. That number is way to huge for anyone to even imagine. The amount of addresses is enormous. The chance of finding an address with bitcoins in it is so damn small it's impossible to do it. Good luck finding an active address in that list.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Tyrantt on June 13, 2017, 12:45:43 AM Guys get real, take a look at the page number. That number is way to huge for anyone to even imagine. The amount of addresses is enormous. The chance of finding an address with bitcoins in it is so damn small it's impossible to do it. Good luck finding an active address in that list. well even if this was a real deal, don't you think that someone would automate that like making a scrypt or a program for that task to go smoother? But it's not. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: BrewMaster on June 13, 2017, 02:10:46 AM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 seriously! this is such a shitty move by Vitalik Buterin! meanwhile his project, ethereum, is filled with bugs and a terrible code if you ever bother to check it. it has already been exploited a couple of times and each time led to loss of millions of dollars ... ... and the tweets something the most fake thing in history of bitcoin! real mature of him. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Argon2 on June 13, 2017, 02:12:54 AM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! Vitalik is a troll...https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: d5000 on June 13, 2017, 03:19:43 AM Can I scare you even more?
There is a program called "Large Bitcoin Collider" that is described here (https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/) (and discussed here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1877935.0) at Bitcointalk) that is even better than directory.io and searches for collisions. It has already found a couple of addresses with balance! PANIC!!!!!!!! Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: Hydrogen on June 13, 2017, 04:48:55 AM I've never seen large bitcoin collider nor anyone else document their attempts to break private keys in a way that is legitimate. At least not legitimate in my humble & amateur opinion. :) They don't mention the number of keys they generate over a set period of time to give an indication of how long it might take to break a single key. If brute forcing keys were an issue, core might be forced implement a lockout if a number of transaction attempts failed due to bad keys. AFAIK that's not a difficult fix which could confirm its not an issue.
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: rambeazle on June 13, 2017, 06:15:46 AM ITT: Idiots meet ETH shills
Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: AK47- on June 13, 2017, 06:28:30 AM ??? ??? IF THIS IS REAL BTC IS DOOMED! https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/873536653331095552 Lol that database is damn to large, but the most important thing that people can be victims is to search there by private key to see if their address is there or not!! I think that that the owner of that website is just joking and making people to search for their addresses or/and their private key and that could be a prank! Quote Q: Can I search by private key? A: Yes. @see API documentation. Q: Should I search by private key? A: No. I log and steal everything. Title: Re: Scary tweet I've just read! Post by: deisik on June 13, 2017, 11:53:27 AM I've never seen large bitcoin collider nor anyone else document their attempts to break private keys in a way that is legitimate. At least not legitimate in my humble & amateur opinion. :) They don't mention the number of keys they generate over a set period of time to give an indication of how long it might take to break a single key. If brute forcing keys were an issue, core might be forced implement a lockout if a number of transaction attempts failed due to bad keys. AFAIK that's not a difficult fix which could confirm its not an issue. Could you explain what you mean by that? That is, access to what exactly should they block and what transaction attempts do you refer to? I don't really know what you mean but that would obviously be against Bitcoin principles anyway. As I understand these efforts at cracking the private keys, you just download the whole blockchain to your computer, then run a key generating code and see if the public key you thus generated matches any in the blockchain. If it does and it has balance (the wallet it corresponds to), then you hit a jackpot. So what are you going to lockout here? |