Is it possible to brute force bitcoin address creation in order to steal money?

[Radio-Active]

i think it is not possible because when you are creating your bitcoin address, your wallet address will consist of many characters.
The brute force method will not cover all of combinations of the private key of some wallet to steal.

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[yyourboss]

Bitcoin addresses are actually the 256-bit SHA hash of an ECDSA public key, so any vulnerabilities in those algorithms would constitute a vulnerability in bitcoin itself. Realistically, however, breaking this level of encryption requires a huge amount of processing power. Coincidentally it requires precisely the same kind of processing power that bitcoin mining requires and in almost every scenario it would be massively more profitable to mine than to hack.

[telisitan]

You have to generate and hash a lot of ECDSA key pairs that you can't imagine before you can find a reasonable chance of collision. With current computing power, this takes longer than the age of the universe.

[AGD]

If you have a lot of computing power,

You don't need a lot of computing power.  Here are all the private keys right here:
https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1 

Your key is in there too.  Think your money is safe?  Guess again.  It has already been cracked.

I thought you have gained at least some knowledge about Bitcoin in the past few years, but as it turns out, you are standing in line with the flood of FUD oriented newbs.

[Thirdspace]

You don't need a lot of computing power.  Here are all the private keys right here:
https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1 

Your key is in there too.  Think your money is safe?  Guess again.  It has already been cracked.

here's the address 12tLs9c9RsALt4ockxa1hB4iTCTSmxj2me contains 10,000 BTC
would you be kind to point me the exact page number where this bitcoin address is listed


that page is a simple on-the-fly auto generated page of hex private keys listed in sequential order

[viyumztf]

It is possible to brute force some Bitcoin addresses, because some people generate their private keys in an insecure manner. Any (non-zero) 32 bytes can be a private key. So running sha256 over a passphrase gives an apparently random, but brute force-able private key.

[odolvlobo]

In both mining and brute-forcing private keys, you are generating 256-bit numbers in the hope of finding one that fits a criteria. If the criteria is met, there is a reward. You can consider the effectiveness of brute-forcing private keys in terms of mining.

There are currently 22,268,987 addresses holding an average of 0.76 BTC each. The chances of finding one of 22M addresses out of 2¹⁶⁰ possible addresses is equivalent to a target of 0x000000000000000000000000000000000153CC3B000000000000000000000000 (assuming my math is correct).

That target corresponds to a difficulty of 1,764,330,921,064,039,848,434,241,513,961,029,632. If you compare that to the current difficulty of 5,363,678,461,481 and consider that the reward is only 0.76 BTC compared to 12.5 BTC, you will see that searching for addresses with a balance is incredibly inefficient compared to mining.

[turinafanda]

I think you're missing the point. You don't have to find the private key. You only have to find a private key that corresponds to a public key with the correct 160 bit hash. That is 2^(256-160) times easier than finding a private key that corresponds to the correct public key.

[rehydrogenated]

If you could brute force bitcoin addresses it wouldn't be very useful as a currency, would it? Even the (theoretical) quantum computers of the future will have a problem finding any bitcoin wallets with bitcoins in them. Even the wallets that are found are not going to be worth the energy consumed in the process of finding them. There is only really one wallet that matters and that is Satoshi's wallet. Since its easy to patch bitcoin to be quantum-proof, but would require you to move your coins to a quantum-proof wallet, the Satoshi wallet may be up for grabs by a quantum computing team, if in-fact Satoshi no longer has access to that wallet (or is not alive any longer).

If you want to try an experiment out for yourself, change your one of the seed words to your wallet. Do that 1000x and see if you get any free bitcoins!

[hessanseen]

In practice, bitcoin address creation may be brute force, but it is only applicable to misleading cipher phrases. It may just be the idea of "storing bitcoin in the mind", which is why they need so little money and why they won't be subsidized for a long time.

[Mahanton]

You don't need a lot of computing power.  Here are all the private keys right here:
https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/1 

Your key is in there too.  Think your money is safe?  Guess again.  It has already been cracked.

here's the address 12tLs9c9RsALt4ockxa1hB4iTCTSmxj2me contains 10,000 BTC
would you be kind to point me the exact page number where this bitcoin address is listed


that page is a simple on-the-fly auto generated page of hex private keys listed in sequential order

Why do people do forces out to believe that list of private keys do have corresponding bitcoins inside of those addresses. I doubt or believe there are fools who are trying to access those btc wallets and hoping or giving a shot to have some jackpots which they are just basically  like punching in the air without hitting up something 
Even if you do try to input those keys for a lifetime i bet you wont able to check it all. haha

[Tyr808]

> Is it possible to win powerball 9 consecutive times.

[AGD]

> Is it possible to win powerball 9 consecutive times.

It is possible when you pay a lot more than you can win

edit: ... or if you try often enough, for like a zillion years or so.

[viyumztf]

There is no such technology in the current state of the coin, and if so, Bitcoin has already collapsed.