We have 5 lucky winners already which all played in lottery 2. They all had 2 numbers at the right place. An overview of the tickets per lottery can be found under 'DRAWS'.  Play now, the changes of winning the bigger prices are increasing. |
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Yesterday I came across this. Somebody is offering 6BTC for cracking a brainwallet address. 3 words from the Oxford english dictionary, combined 17 characters long, all lowercase, without any spaces or special characters. At the end one number is appended. A lot of people warned that brainwallet is a bad way to store bitcoins. But after following the comments for a while, it seems quite hard to crack the code. Mostly due to the huge number of possibilities involved. Of course, it could just be someone trolling. Any thoughts on this? |
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If that idea is what I think it is, then it's very bad.  |
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 And did you manage to make a paper wallet? Encountered any problems?
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Just to be sure nothing is on it? It doesn't hurt to try.
So your bought a 2nd computer, are you going to throw it away after finishing storing your Bitcoins cold?
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I found the cold storage addresses for the different pools!  Pool Address Funds Match #4 Pool 1JqdadgxgxrnbEnfvohxtaSNbHt52kVLtC 1,396.45182401 BTC Match #3 Pool 1EnHPvDZfG9CzwK4Ai9ZpT6t7iJWPSCp77 0.62759521 BTC Match #2 Pool 1ETya2BCpwgTuz88ubiLPf2kUvMpUymhBq 3.58844176 BTC The funds are still there, maybe their website needs major revisions or something. Would be nice to here something though. |
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gone for good?
Seems like it. Two people who I think are involved haven't been online for quite a while. ShaTwo Last Active: January 31, 2014, 02:26:33 AM BitMillions Last Active: December 29, 2013, 11:46:07 The website went black at the beginning of this year, supposedly because of a bug that was found. BitMillions - Under Maintenance Notice
We discovered a bug on the system that was exploited by a player to steal the online pools.
As you described, the bug allowed the exploiter to create tickets with the same number twice, when that number was under 10, what allow the attacker to steal about 30 BTC from the site.
The bug is already fixed, but we are having problems getting it back online, since there are still some tickets from the attacker that are pending to be paid that need to be removed.
All valid tickets will be paid as soon as the system is put back online.
We are working in having the issue resolved... please apologies for the inconvenience.
Again, please don't panic, we are not a scam, we are just fixing a bug and once everything is resolved, we will be back on online and have all the pending tickets processed and paid.
Please feel free to PM me if you have any questions and again, please apologies for the inconvenience.
He says that it is going to be fixed and pending tickets are still valid. I hope they didn't just disappeared with the large jackpot, during the time they operated it increased in value quite a bit. I remember they had the jackpot in some kind of cold storage address, mentioned on the website. We could check if that money is still there, but I can't find the address anymore. Does anybody know? I liked playing on that website, it worked nicely and it looked awesome. Although I haven't any pending tickets on there, I sure hope they come back some day. |
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Ah, but one crucial fact you neg nellies are missing is that it depends how many computers you throw at it. If it would take a 1000 years on one PC, then it would take 1 year on a 1000. Especailly if using the earlier distributed idea where ranges are assigned. Yes, it may not be economically feasible to pay for that electricity versus just buying bitcoins, but it would make solving the problem quicker.
I already included all the computers existing today, see: ... Simple crude calculation: 2 160 bitcoin addresses 2 billion computers worldwide 13 million addresses checked per day on a computer 22 160 / ( 2e9 * 3e6 * 365 ) = 667e27 years ... 2 billion that is. Of course it is arguable on how many computers to add each year, and about how fast they are going to get. But even if you let is grow in a few orders of size, the point of my explanation stays the same. It is just too hard to do. |
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Off topic (because the topic is about very big and very small numbers, and I think it's mind boggling): 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12 1  Only if you use a very specific treatment of infinity that also happens to be useful in physics (edit: or was it quantum mechanics.. hmmm, already forgot) because it actually ends up matching what they're seeing  ( saw that vid a while back - there's all sorts of mathematical oddities in those channels, well worth subscribing. ) In one of the videos it was mentioned that it appears in the beginning of quantum mechanics books. It is one of the reasons why the number of dimensions is what it is in string theory, because of that outcome. I want to make a remark that pure mathematically it can be deduced from the Riemann zeta function. So maybe they found it because of physics, but it also exists in the abstract world of mathematics. |
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It's just that the odds of that being the case are very, very, very (rinse and repeat a lot) low. Of course the odds are exactly the same for your point along the timeline, or for any other point along the timeline within the bounds as proposed, to the point where statistically speaking it doesn't make sense to even try.
Yep, you're right of course. After 667e27 years the chance of finding the right k is 100%. In statistics the expected value or the mean would be halve of that, 333.5e27 years. But the odds or so low, it could be zero in a human life time for that matter. Off topic (because the topic is about very big and very small numbers, and I think it's mind boggling): 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12 1 |
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Winning the lottery is very unlikely also, but someone has to win eventually. If you use random numbers, the very next number chosen COULD be it. ...
Sure, but you have to include the fact that the number space is huge. The number of tickets in a lottery are at least contained in a pool from which you know a winner is drawn. That is different than looking for a number in a huge range of integers. Simple crude calculation: 2 160 bitcoin addresses 2 billion computers worldwide 13 million addresses checked per day on a computer 22 160 / ( 2e9 * 3e6 * 365 ) = 667e27 years Timeline: big bang sun was born now sun dies existing stars burn out you finding k all matter evaporated |-------------|---------------|--------------|---------------|-----------------------|-----------------| 0 9.2e9 13.8e9 19e9 1e15 667e27 1e34 Entropy is a bitch. |
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Using a python script is not a very efficient method of brute forcing it.
I have a feeling that a lot of total noobs are seriously thinking that it is possible this way.
Then again chance, randomness, and probabilities are very counter intuitive.
It is just not possible to grasp the numbers involved.
Does anybody know how much k's can be checked per second with that python script?
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... Very simply, I put my A money into a big pool, now it's D, E, F, G that pay for me and I pay a little part for them, my A address remains unlinked to my activities.
You could use Shared Coin for that. Does exactly what you asked. |
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