Is it possible to hack BTC on that address only by knowing the bitcoin address?

[Star.Wars]

Bitcoin system is safe by nature.
In general, hacking incidents come at the expense of user mistakes.
As far as I know there is an estimation of the seed words by the brute force method.

Is it possible to attack only the bitcoin address? For example, I have a BTC address. And there is a very high amount of BTC at this btc address.

Is this BTC address hackable?

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[OmegaStarScream]

It's not possible , you need access to private keys in order to gain access to the bitcoins . If by the seed , you are talking about the random generated ones by wallets like Electrum and Multibit HD then unless the hacker have at least a small idea about the passphrase , It's impossible for him to brute force it.

[Star.Wars]

It's not possible , you need access to private keys in order to gain access to the bitcoins . If by the seed , you are talking about the random generated ones by wallets like Electrum and Multibit HD then unless the hacker have at least a small idea about the passphrase , It's impossible for him to brute force it.

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

[yescopyleftsounds]

It's not possible , you need access to private keys in order to gain access to the bitcoins . If by the seed , you are talking about the random generated ones by wallets like Electrum and Multibit HD then unless the hacker have at least a small idea about the passphrase , It's impossible for him to brute force it.

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

it's illegal
want to be kicked out ? you can try.

[OmegaStarScream]

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

It's impossible to do that otherwise that would make bitcoin holders unsafe . I guess It's still possible to try and track transactions (It's not that easy to do) and hope you will get to the real IP address and then hack the computer If It's not that protected but chances that someone could do everything of the above are very low .
Its worth mentioning that big holders use hardware wallets and paper wallets and even If they was storing in PC , they would use 2FA . As long as you are not downloading random stuff from the internet , someone can't simply hack you.

I recommend checking this too : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses

[OgNasty]

Each time I see this question, I can only think to provide a link to this image:
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[RawDog]

Bitcoin system is safe by nature.
In general, hacking incidents come at the expense of user mistakes.
As far as I know there is an estimation of the seed words by the brute force method.

Is it possible to attack only the bitcoin address? For example, I have a BTC address. And there is a very high amount of BTC at this btc address.

Is this BTC address hackable?

Definitely.  This is the problem with Bitcoin.  It is not 100% certain.  If somebody works out the math between the address and the key, your money is gone.  You can't get it back.  Once they move it, say goodbye to it.

For now, just cross your fingers and hope they won't learn the math relationship between the address and the key.  But when they do, it is over.  It's just science.  Lots of things once impossible, are totally possible today.

[RawDog]

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.  Best if fully dedicated and separate from your normal computer.
2) download and install Vanitygen
3) 64 vanitygen64 (64 is faster and works better than normal vanitygen)
4) start scan on the address like this at the command line: vanitygen64 1FuckYouc6zrtHbnqcHdhrSVhcxgpJgfds

It will take some time for sure.  But soon you will have the key for that address. 

Don't let the morons around here tell you it is impossible.  That is just plain wrong.  It is scientifically provable that this works.  Dumbasses who don't understand statistics love declaring this impossible.  Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

[BitLover001]

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.  Best if fully dedicated and separate from your normal computer.
2) download and install Vanitygen
3) 64 vanitygen64 (64 is faster and works better than normal vanitygen)
4) start scan on the address like this at the command line: vanitygen64 1FuckYouc6zrtHbnqcHdhrSVhcxgpJgfds

It will take some time for sure.  But soon you will have the key for that address. 

Don't let the morons around here tell you it is impossible.  That is just plain wrong.  It is scientifically provable that this works.  Dumbasses who don't understand statistics love declaring this impossible.  Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

Lol I love your word soon...
it is quiet quick when you want an adress which start with some letters and that you don't care about the rest.
But if you are targetting a precise and full address, here is a table for an estimate of time :

vanity    difficulty    average time
1B    22    < 1s
1Bi    1,330    < 1s
1Bit    77,178    < 1s
1Bitc    4,476,342 (4.48E+6)    < 10s
1Bitco    259,627,881 (2.6E+8)    3 minutes
1Bitcoi    15,058,417,127 (1.506E+10)    3 hours
1Bitcoin    8.7339E+11    1 week
1BitcoinE    5.0657E+13    1 year
1BitcoinEa    2.9381E+15    60 years
1BitcoinEat    1.7041E+17    3,500 years
1BitcoinEate    9.8837E+18    200,000 years
1BitcoinEater    5.7325E+20    11,700,000 years
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSend    1.6209E+47    3.3E+33 or 3.3 decillion years.

So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now

[cpfreeplz]

Did you try maybe googling it first? Ugh. No. If bitcoins are hackable then everyone on earth is fucked because banking uses the same encryption SHA256. Don't worry about it. A much more likely way to lose your bitcoins would be someone hacking your computer, stealing a paper wallet or robbing you at gunpoint.

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.  Best if fully dedicated and separate from your normal computer.
2) download and install Vanitygen
3) 64 vanitygen64 (64 is faster and works better than normal vanitygen)
4) start scan on the address like this at the command line: vanitygen64 1FuckYouc6zrtHbnqcHdhrSVhcxgpJgfds

It will take some time for sure.  But soon you will have the key for that address. 

Don't let the morons around here tell you it is impossible.  That is just plain wrong.  It is scientifically provable that this works.  Dumbasses who don't understand statistics love declaring this impossible.  Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

It would be much faster to buy a gun, a plane ticket and a body bag. But let tell your great great great great great(^256) grandkids to report back once they hacked my bitcoin address.

[RawDog]

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.  Best if fully dedicated and separate from your normal computer.
2) download and install Vanitygen
3) 64 vanitygen64 (64 is faster and works better than normal vanitygen)
4) start scan on the address like this at the command line: vanitygen64 1FuckYouc6zrtHbnqcHdhrSVhcxgpJgfds

It will take some time for sure.  But soon you will have the key for that address. 

Don't let the morons around here tell you it is impossible.  That is just plain wrong.  It is scientifically provable that this works.  Dumbasses who don't understand statistics love declaring this impossible.  Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

Lol I love your word soon...
it is quiet quick when you want an adress which start with some letters and that you don't care about the rest.
But if you are targetting a precise and full address, here is a table for an estimate of time :

vanity    difficulty    average time
1B    22    < 1s
1Bi    1,330    < 1s
1Bit    77,178    < 1s
1Bitc    4,476,342 (4.48E+6)    < 10s
1Bitco    259,627,881 (2.6E+8)    3 minutes
1Bitcoi    15,058,417,127 (1.506E+10)    3 hours
1Bitcoin    8.7339E+11    1 week
1BitcoinE    5.0657E+13    1 year
1BitcoinEa    2.9381E+15    60 years
1BitcoinEat    1.7041E+17    3,500 years
1BitcoinEate    9.8837E+18    200,000 years
1BitcoinEater    5.7325E+20    11,700,000 years
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSend    1.6209E+47    3.3E+33 or 3.3 decillion years.

So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.  You probably have a piece of shit you got at Radio Shack 10 years ago. 

[criptix]

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.  Best if fully dedicated and separate from your normal computer.
2) download and install Vanitygen
3) 64 vanitygen64 (64 is faster and works better than normal vanitygen)
4) start scan on the address like this at the command line: vanitygen64 1FuckYouc6zrtHbnqcHdhrSVhcxgpJgfds

It will take some time for sure.  But soon you will have the key for that address. 

Don't let the morons around here tell you it is impossible.  That is just plain wrong.  It is scientifically provable that this works.  Dumbasses who don't understand statistics love declaring this impossible.  Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

Lol I love your word soon...
it is quiet quick when you want an adress which start with some letters and that you don't care about the rest.
But if you are targetting a precise and full address, here is a table for an estimate of time :

vanity    difficulty    average time
1B    22    < 1s
1Bi    1,330    < 1s
1Bit    77,178    < 1s
1Bitc    4,476,342 (4.48E+6)    < 10s
1Bitco    259,627,881 (2.6E+8)    3 minutes
1Bitcoi    15,058,417,127 (1.506E+10)    3 hours
1Bitcoin    8.7339E+11    1 week
1BitcoinE    5.0657E+13    1 year
1BitcoinEa    2.9381E+15    60 years
1BitcoinEat    1.7041E+17    3,500 years
1BitcoinEate    9.8837E+18    200,000 years
1BitcoinEater    5.7325E+20    11,700,000 years
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSend    1.6209E+47    3.3E+33 or 3.3 decillion years.

So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.  You probably have a piece of shit you got at Radio Shack 10 years ago. 

For humanities sake please just jump from a bridge.
The consequence would be an increase of humanities average iq by atleast 10 points 

[Meliodasama]

Its not possible
But there are many malware in online
That malware can manipulate bitcoin address

When you trying to send btc the address changed when you copy then paste
Many victim of this issue.

[DannyHamilton]

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How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy.  

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.
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Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible.  

Lol I love your word soon...
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So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.
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Yes.  You said "good quality computer."

You also said "millions of times per second."

It is reasonable to assume that millions of times per second means less than 1,000,000,000 per second.

If you can guess 1,000,000,000 per second:

• It will take you less than 1 second        to try 2²⁹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 minute         to try 2³⁵ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 hour            to try 2⁴¹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 day              to try 2⁴⁶ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 week            to try 2⁴⁹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 month          to try 2⁵² keys.
• It will take you less than 1 year             to try 2⁵⁴ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 decade          to try 2⁵⁸ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 century         to try 2⁶¹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 millennium    to try 2⁶⁴ keys.
• It will take you less than 10 billion years to try 2⁸⁸ keys.
• It will take you MORE THAN 13.2 BILLION YEARS to try 2⁸⁹ keys.

The universe is estimated to only be 13.2 billion years old right now. There are 2¹⁶⁰ Bitcoin addresses.

So if you started at the big bang, and continuously generated 1 billion addresses per second, right now you still wouldn't have generated even one billionth of one percent of all the possible addresses.  Odds are nearly certain that you still wouldn't have found the private key for the address you started with.

[aryer84]

Glad to see that the answer is a resounding no. 

[Newmine]

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How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.
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Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

Lol I love your word soon...
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So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.
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Yes.  You said "good quality computer."

You also said "millions of times per second."

It is reasonable to assume that millions of times per second means less than 1,000,000,000 per second.

If you can guess 1,000,000,000 per second:

• It will take you less than 1 second        to try 2²⁹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 minute         to try 2³⁵ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 hour            to try 2⁴¹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 day              to try 2⁴⁶ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 week            to try 2⁴⁹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 month          to try 2⁵² keys.
• It will take you less than 1 year             to try 2⁵⁴ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 decade          to try 2⁵⁸ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 century         to try 2⁶¹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 millennium    to try 2⁶⁴ keys.
• It will take you less than 10 billion years to try 2⁸⁸ keys.
• It will take you MORE THAN 13.2 BILLION YEARS to try 2⁸⁹ keys.

The universe is estimated to only be 13.2 billion years old right now.

So if you started at the big bang, and continuously generated 1 billion addresses per second, right now you still wouldn't have generated even one billionth of one percent of all the possible addresses.  Odds are nearly certain that you still wouldn't have found the private key for the address you started with.

Don't forget about luck. It would be 13.2 billion years if in the very last second of that 13.2 billion years and you happened across the correct private key. In reality, you would come across it sometime sooner, right?

Side thought, what is stopping people from importing random bitcoin private keys at a mass rate. With the growing number of users and addresses used, at some point they would get lucky with that too, right?

[aarons6]

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy.  

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.  Best if fully dedicated and separate from your normal computer.
2) download and install Vanitygen
3) 64 vanitygen64 (64 is faster and works better than normal vanitygen)
4) start scan on the address like this at the command line: vanitygen64 1FuckYouc6zrtHbnqcHdhrSVhcxgpJgfds

It will take some time for sure.  But soon you will have the key for that address.  

Don't let the morons around here tell you it is impossible.  That is just plain wrong.  It is scientifically provable that this works.  Dumbasses who don't understand statistics love declaring this impossible.  Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible.  

while this is entirely possible.. and i do believe you about the someday someone somewhere will generate an address collision by accident.. but when this happens that address will most likely have zero coins in it because of the way the new wallets sweep the address when you spend and send change to a new one.


but it is so highly improbable that you will never be able to do it on purpose on a certain address.. ever.. not even once.

[aarons6]

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How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.
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Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

Lol I love your word soon...
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So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.
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Yes.  You said "good quality computer."

You also said "millions of times per second."

It is reasonable to assume that millions of times per second means less than 1,000,000,000 per second.

If you can guess 1,000,000,000 per second:

• It will take you less than 1 second        to try 2²⁹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 minute         to try 2³⁵ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 hour            to try 2⁴¹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 day              to try 2⁴⁶ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 week            to try 2⁴⁹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 month          to try 2⁵² keys.
• It will take you less than 1 year             to try 2⁵⁴ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 decade          to try 2⁵⁸ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 century         to try 2⁶¹ keys.
• It will take you less than 1 millennium    to try 2⁶⁴ keys.
• It will take you less than 10 billion years to try 2⁸⁸ keys.
• It will take you MORE THAN 13.2 BILLION YEARS to try 2⁸⁹ keys.

The universe is estimated to only be 13.2 billion years old right now.

So if you started at the big bang, and continuously generated 1 billion addresses per second, right now you still wouldn't have generated even one billionth of one percent of all the possible addresses.  Odds are nearly certain that you still wouldn't have found the private key for the address you started with.

Don't forget about luck. It would be 13.2 billion years if in the very last second of that 13.2 billion years and you happened across the correct private key. In reality, you would come across it sometime sooner, right?

Side thought, what is stopping people from importing random bitcoin private keys at a mass rate. With the growing number of users and addresses used, at some point they would get lucky with that too, right?

there are already several people that made a script to do this.. the way the system works there is really nothing stopping someone from generating the same address someone else already has.

[sugarbaby]

Actually, I want to know how to attack the bitcoin address.
Get an address with a high amount of bitcoin in it. How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy. 

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.  Best if fully dedicated and separate from your normal computer.
2) download and install Vanitygen
3) 64 vanitygen64 (64 is faster and works better than normal vanitygen)
4) start scan on the address like this at the command line: vanitygen64 1FuckYouc6zrtHbnqcHdhrSVhcxgpJgfds

It will take some time for sure.  But soon you will have the key for that address. 

Don't let the morons around here tell you it is impossible.  That is just plain wrong.  It is scientifically provable that this works.  Dumbasses who don't understand statistics love declaring this impossible.  Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second.  With enough seconds, it is not impossible. 

Lol I love your word soon...
it is quiet quick when you want an adress which start with some letters and that you don't care about the rest.
But if you are targetting a precise and full address, here is a table for an estimate of time :

vanity    difficulty    average time
1B    22    < 1s
1Bi    1,330    < 1s
1Bit    77,178    < 1s
1Bitc    4,476,342 (4.48E+6)    < 10s
1Bitco    259,627,881 (2.6E+8)    3 minutes
1Bitcoi    15,058,417,127 (1.506E+10)    3 hours
1Bitcoin    8.7339E+11    1 week
1BitcoinE    5.0657E+13    1 year
1BitcoinEa    2.9381E+15    60 years
1BitcoinEat    1.7041E+17    3,500 years
1BitcoinEate    9.8837E+18    200,000 years
1BitcoinEater    5.7325E+20    11,700,000 years
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSend    1.6209E+47    3.3E+33 or 3.3 decillion years.

So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.  You probably have a piece of shit you got at Radio Shack 10 years ago. 

lol, this anwser...lmao...best ever 

[Sadlife]

Maybe its possible after all there is a saying that "no system is safe"
if you could trace the BTC address of the user its more likely they are using an online wallet stored in a website or they are storing their Bitcoins on their own computer and maybe both using 2FA verification for more security. So just knowing the pasword of a bitcoin wallet is not enough cause you need to bypass the 2FA.

The only option is knowing what type of encryption and algorithm being use to produce this private keys and try to create your own exploit to crack it. Hacking bitcoin wallets is not impossible it's just very hard.