wtf is this...

[nkmt]

OMG, Bitcoin is unsafe! I'm going to convert all my BTC to BCH!

/s

[drachman]

messing around with the website I typed random characters in the number of the page and actually found an address that had 0.04 Btc, it said 0.04 total received final balance 0... is this rare??? I didn't record the address though I just kept looking.

each day i see i don't really understand the Bitcoin protocol, i need to learn what cryptography is and how really bitcoin works.

Well, at least something good will come from this experience, probably the first thing you should do is to read the bitcoin white paper, in fact I think that should be mandatory.

[Yakamoto]

why is this public... I didn't know everyone had access to everyone's private keys...


http://directory.io

Look at the amount of pages. Look at the private keys and how the vary very little in between each other, with only the last few characters changing. Now think about whatever your private key is, and how hard it would be to find your key specifically on a website that doesn't even let you search for the private keys and would force you to scroll through every page. The chances of you ever having your private key stolen are next to nothing (and they even explain that math makes it nearly impossible), and this is no different than doing a guess-and-check for private keys. Someone could try to do the same thing by themselves, it would never, or it at least is highly unlikely, to yield results.

[lottery248]

i don't sure its reason of existence, though faq has more valid reason i think. IMO that directory is a way to view all the possible combinations of prototype bitcoin address.

[xJuturna]

Don't worry OP this site has been around for a while. It's more or less a gag as the chances of matching up someone's keys are ridiculous. You'd have a better chance of jumping out of an airplane and getting attacked by a shark inside of a rain cloud whilst getting struck by lightning...

[HashFace]

Don't worry OP this site has been around for a while. It's more or less a gag as the chances of matching up someone's keys are ridiculous. You'd have a better chance of jumping out of an airplane and getting attacked by a shark inside of a rain cloud whilst getting struck by lightning...

See ... that's what I thought, in order to steel from a wallet you'd need both the private and the matching public key ... I mean, the chances alone of guessing a private key are slim, but the chances of also guessing the matching public key is about as close to Zero as you can get.  

But that website's FAQs seems to be saying that if you know the private key, the public address can be generated from the private key.  Is that BS?

A private key with the value   0 would generate the address: 16QaFeudRUt8NYy2yzjm3BMvG4xBbAsBFM
   A private key with the value   1 would generate the address: 1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497mE43ikXhwF6kZm
   A private key with the value   2 would generate the address: 1LagHJk2FyCV2VzrNHVqg3gYG4TSYwDV4m
   A private key with the value 127 would generate the address: 1FB8cZijTpRQp3HX8AEkNuQJBqApqfTcX7

I'm not doubting that bitcoin is safe... it is self-evident that it is safe ... I'm just trying to get a better understand of how it works.  

[odolvlobo]

See ... that's what I thought, in order to steel from a wallet you'd need both the private and the matching public key ... I mean, the chances alone of guessing a private key are slim, but the chances of also guessing the matching public key is about as close to Zero as you can get.  

But that website's FAQs seems to be saying that if you know the private key, the public address can be generated from the private key.  Is that BS?

A bitcoin address (frequently and mistakenly referred to as a "public key") is derived from a private key. Actually, it works like this: The bitcoin address is derived from the public key, which is derived from the private key.

[Sami bedoui alonso]

why is this public... I didn't know everyone had access to everyone's private keys...