Can someone open my wallet by seeing the address

[bitcoinstress]

Hello I'm newbie. I just curious if someone can open my wallet by known my address?

It's safe to post address like this one 172jHZ1o61FUKb2uo1xs231HdV43qBWaKf


Please tell me the risk by posting address

[legend018]

If it's your public address, then no - someone can't open a wallet. They would need the private keys which hold your bitcoins.  Never give out your private keys are any seeds.

[deadthings]

You have to know the differents between public adress and private key, this second one is PRIVATE which means that if someone has it they could open your wallet, first one is PUBLIC so it is for everyone.

[lunaelucemauram]

No unless you provided in public your private key.

[Alartonicus]

Everyone can see your balance and transactions https://blockchain.info/address/172jHZ1o61FUKb2uo1xs231HdV43qBWaKf but no one can manage a wallet without your private key.
The private key can be break open but it takes so much energy that hacker have to burn several solar systems

[MiningDoc]

Everyone can see your balance and transactions https://blockchain.info/address/172jHZ1o61FUKb2uo1xs231HdV43qBWaKf but no one can manage a wallet without your private key.
The private key can be break open but it takes so much energy that hacker have to burn several solar systems

^^^^^^  This.  It would take an insane number of years in order to brute force the private key.  It's like generating a custom wallet address, getting the first 4-5 characters can take just a few hours, getting a full wallet address is like hundreds, thousands, or millions of years hashing at current hardware limits.  I don't think people are going to wait around that long

[joinfree]

How it can be possible? You are saying that you are a Newbie, but in fact you are a Full member on this forum and you created your account during the last year.
 

Uhmm this is very suspicious, if you were a full member you should know that, because everybody knows that if you click on your wallet you are going to be able to see your balance.

But there is nothing wrong about seeing the balance, because you can not do anything about it, it is just like a "public record" If you want to have more privacy, then start using multi-signature wallets.

[ActiveMars]

How it can be possible? You are saying that you are a Newbie, but in fact you are a Full member on this forum and you created your account during the last year.
 

Uhmm this is very suspicious, if you were a full member you should know that, because everybody knows that if you click on your wallet you are going to be able to see your balance.

But there is nothing wrong about seeing the balance, because you can not do anything about it, it is just like a "public record" If you want to have more privacy, then start using multi-signature wallets.

Maybe this member has been taking part in discussions for 1 year, but have never got business with wallet? It can be possible, really. Or this user bought profile to take part in ICO bounty)

[nrm4bits]

First of all, yes it's safe to post your public BTC address anywhere you want, nobody will "ever" know who you are or won't have access to your coins.
But i just wanted to say that what i have heard usually called a Wallet is a software containing your private keys, not every single address.

[disantes]

no there is no risk , than if you have a private key you must store it at a save place .

[Dudeperfect]

There is no harm in posting your address publicly but in that case, if you are declaring that the address is owned by you then everyone will know how much Bitcoins you are holding (including the government officials).

But when it comes to this forum, posting your Bitcoin address (where you hold the private keys and can sign a message) is helpful for the security of your account and in case of any unauthorised access, you can contact forum staff using the signed message of through this address and recover your account.

[kelvinyong]

What about hacker or tracker that directly search for the public wallet address and locate your private address? Sorry noob question 

[AzureDragon]

Without the private key it is impossible.

[lordquanta]

Hello I'm newbie. I just curious if someone can open my wallet by known my address?

It's safe to post address like this one 172jHZ1o61FUKb2uo1xs231HdV43qBWaKf


Please tell me the risk by posting address

First thing first, is it your desktop wallet or web-based wallet or what? If it is a desktop-wallet then its private and public keys must be with you. Hopefully these keys are encrypted. Then only way to open your wallet is use correct passphrase along with those keys. If private key is missing then say bye bye to your coins. No way to recover it.
If your wallet is third-party web-based then contact the customer care of your wallet-holding company. In these kind of scenarios, the private keys are with the company hosting the wallet.
About the posting address in public, it is tentatively safe. It is not possible to decrypt your wallet just by seeing its public address. So far you are safe in posting it on forum.

[promoza]

Not impossible for the moment, but who knows)

[kojoannan]

If he got access to the private key, then is possible for him to open it.

[crypto-curious]

No, your private key is the most important and gives access to your wallet. Never give this out to anyone! People have made this mistake in the past and have been robbed clean!

[Prinox2]

Hello I'm newbie. I just curious if someone can open my wallet by known my address?

It's safe to post address like this one 172jHZ1o61FUKb2uo1xs231HdV43qBWaKf


Please tell me the risk by posting address

don't take tension, provided you don't give out your private key, your account is safe.

it's just like some having your house address without your gate key

[kuroman]

Hello I'm newbie. I just curious if someone can open my wallet by known my address?

It's safe to post address like this one 172jHZ1o61FUKb2uo1xs231HdV43qBWaKf


Please tell me the risk by posting address

The answer as was mentioned previously is NO, that's your public address but please before going any further with bitcoin read the sticky thread in this section (second one and the others of course) it explains everything about wallet, public and private address, hot and cold storage, that way you won't do the mistake of giving up anything sensitive.

[SwishCheese]

I was also wondering the same thing. Some people told me it won't ,but i want to make sure.

Please tell me someone.