Now would be a good time for someone to post that infographic about how the laws of physics mean that it's really impossible to brute force private keys.

Anyways, I wouldn't bother wasting your time trying to find and exact match - realistically your more likely to win the lottery 5 times in a row. If your going to mine for an address just for yourself use either oclvanitygen or vanitygen depending in whether you wish to use your GPU or CpU. Do note that your GPU in most cases is faster.

Finally, even if a site uses split key generation I still wouldn't use them, it's still far safer to generate the private key on an air gapped PC.

Widespread adoption would be necessary to enable such prices to occur, and honestly I feel that people view Bitcoin as a medium of investment rather than an alternative payment system it is designed to be. As such it is not going to ever reach the same degree of 'value' as fiat takes up unless it replaces fiat and since I'm doubtful of that happening by logic I'm extremely doubtful of reaching even 10K.

This is probably the single feature I'm looking forward to most, I'm interested in looking at your implementation of it and from a gambler's perspective 0 house edge is always good (at least better than -EV lol). Any ETA or are you still unsure Stunna?

Ah ok, might be a good time to invest and make use of that 1% edge and less whales whose variance could screw things up. Just another question, of the sites bankroll how much of it is doog's own BTC?

A brain wallet is not a web wallet as you are alluding to with Blockchain. It is this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet

As far as security goes - just avoid using a brain wallet. It might be a cool idea but unless you have sufficient entropy your coins will be eventually stolen.

First off, as has been pointed out you'll be losing money in the long term with that not to mention the possibility of bricking your laptop. If you want to mine my suggestion is to do some analysis and buy the parts necessary to make your own GPU rig/farm and use that to mine as it'll be more cost efficient and possibly give you ROI.

Yeah no. Unless there is a massive devaluation in fiat so that the price of BTC skyrockets I'm skeptical we'll even reach 10K per coin before 2040 let alone one mill per coin. You guys are really dreamining a little too big here 

On the assumption that it happened (although it is not even remotely likely to occur) you are right in saying it would simply lead to an increase in the time between blocks and if nothing was done then difficulty would be retargeted back to achieve ~10 min block times.

Just out of curiosity are there still any whales playing or is it just a stream of small time causal bettors? Nakowa's run must have been rediculously scary for investors though, luckily it worked out in the end.

I'd say we either completely flop and die within 3 years or there is enough mainstream adoption by merchants and consumers alike to keep us going for a long time. I'm feeling like it's going to be the former but hoping for the latter.

Sadly ignorance isn't considered an offence to the same degree as scamming/spamming/trolling is, so I'm pretty sure it's not bannable. Anyways, people need to be more careful when downloading shady stuff - ransom ware can be a giant pain in the ass if you have critical files you haven't backed up.

Haha, well I'm not the one who still hasn't got a clue how he got hacked and lost his money. Seeing as you obviously don't need any help I don't see why you don't just close this thread and continue as you will and lose your money. No skin off my nose.

Last time I checked BTC22 was roughly worth about 10K USD, which I personally would consider a lot. Unless your telling me that your somehow some magical rich kid with no monetary concerns.


This statement is simply a clear example of your gross misunderstanding of how Bitcoin works. I've already explained 'wallet numbers' and your weird notion that companies hold all of the wallets. Of course I'm for 'real', I'm trying to educate you on how to stop this kind of crap from happening in the future.

Eh, in all probability it's just the normal FUD created by trolls who hope to change the price by scaring everyone out of Bitcoin.

@OP: Just because you lost your coins doesn't mean you have to try and ruin things for everyone else. Much better to use your time finding that security hole of yours.

A brute-force attack is rather unlikely if you had a password of reasonable entropy, length and complexity. It's far more likely you were using either a compromised system or you had your details phished. Tracking the coins is pointless, it won't be able to help you get them back. On a side note, your coins were probably sent to an address not a whole wallet and it's probable that no 'company' owns it, much rather someone running the standard client/Electrum/Multibit. Finally, even if it was a Blockchain wallet they would be unable to recover your coins because they do not have the private key. All in all, while I'm sorry for your loss, IMO you need to do some more reading about wallets and Bitcoin in general (especially if you're storing large amount of coins - look into a cold storage system) as you don't seem to understand how the system works and the best methods to protect your coins.

I'm hardly surprised - a real business would be appalled at that kind of behaviour as it would deter customers. But for a scam simply preying on people's deposits I doubt they would bother to have proper customer support that would be willing to actually deal with problems. In reality, everything points this site being a HYIP that is looking to disappear at any minute.

Yeah, I'm rather worried by the fact there is no evidence to prove that they are actually mining rather than running an elaborate ponzi. Some proof of their farms/tracing back transactions to a newly created block would be fine, but I doubt they would be willing to do that.

The major problem I can see with this idea is that people will simply use chess engines against one another and then it won't be a game of skill anymore - much rather a game of who has the best engine and access to large amounts of computational power. Would be nice to see Bitcoin integration with some other skill based games though.

IMO, it's really just this. If someone with enough initial capital with some vision wanted to do this they probably could, but currently nobody really has enough drive or wants to front up the money to make the project a success. Plus the initial expenses would be pretty high especially if you had to find someone to code and as the site expands to get some support staff. However, I'm pretty sure if they just took a % it would cover the costs and be a pretty good revenue stream.

Probably something significantly under 1%. Too many expenses at the moment to be able to consistently maintain a large amount stored as BTC - although I'd definitely like to up that figure in the coming months/years and just hoard in the long-term.