I made a similar concept, but it wasn't self hosted. I never made the front page though! Congrats. Could you add a video of the experience to GitHub. Without that I wasn't willing to download and give it a go
No reason to--no one will hit.
You have much much much chance at guessing a random number that solves the next bitcoin block and mining the old fashioned way.
Let's see...2^241 or so possible 256 bit numbers, so that's 256 * 2^241, so that's....10^50 yottabytes. Obviously we're gonna need cloud storage for all this, so let's say that's about 2 cents per gigabyte/month, so that's...2.2614 × 10^63 dollars per month?
Actually, why does the site list the odds as ~1 in 5.27 × 10⁷²? That's 2^241, but it's picking random 256 bit numbers. Is it because there are so many valid hits?
Why wouldn't the host just send themselves the key first and then have everyone pull slot machine for them. If you do win it, you are not seeing a penny if you roll from that site.
Generally agree that most services like this would at a minimum log a matching key w/ alert. I'm not going to audit the code but maybe OP has good intentions.
I don't get it. That wasn't hard. What do I do with the key now that I have it?
Nothing much, since quantum supremacy will drive all coins to zero, but it is a biohazard.
Email it to me and I'll safely dispose of it for you at a responsible E-waste site.
Same here. I guess "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx12345" made it easy for Satoshi to remember, though.
Post it on here. We'll all help you out.
The honest thing to do is to return the key you found to its owner Satoshi Nakamoto.
I dunno if I'm missing something, but I can't see the actual guessed key anywhere on the site?
So if I win, I won't be able to actually claim the Mooney's?
The key shows up if you win, you can simulate it by adding ?devwin=1 to the URL.
Hmm, maybe this can help me win the Monopoly Lottery :)
99% of gamblers quit before they win big. In this case, really big. I am going to be the 1%. Or should that be the 1.9e-71%.
A better project would be to take the exact key generation function at the time Satoshi started it and mine possible PRNG parameters.
There's also the Large Bitcoin Collider. Last time coins were recovered was 9 years ago. https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about
I made a similar concept, but it wasn't self hosted. I never made the front page though! Congrats. Could you add a video of the experience to GitHub. Without that I wasn't willing to download and give it a go
Question is does the dev sneak in some secret notification code if someone hits it?
No reason to--no one will hit. You have much much much chance at guessing a random number that solves the next bitcoin block and mining the old fashioned way.
What's really fun is that, if you win and do anything about it, Bitcoin's value immediately crashes.
Yes, but I think it'll back up within a year. It's crazy.
can use collaborated list to remove the random numbers that failed already.
That's gonna be a nice storage bill!
Let's see...2^241 or so possible 256 bit numbers, so that's 256 * 2^241, so that's....10^50 yottabytes. Obviously we're gonna need cloud storage for all this, so let's say that's about 2 cents per gigabyte/month, so that's...2.2614 × 10^63 dollars per month?
Actually, why does the site list the odds as ~1 in 5.27 × 10⁷²? That's 2^241, but it's picking random 256 bit numbers. Is it because there are so many valid hits?
https://keys.lol is just as fun.
Why wouldn't the host just send themselves the key first and then have everyone pull slot machine for them. If you do win it, you are not seeing a penny if you roll from that site.
There's no realistic chance it'll be correct anyway
Not with that attitude it won’t
Yeah, people really have no faith.
Generally agree that most services like this would at a minimum log a matching key w/ alert. I'm not going to audit the code but maybe OP has good intentions.
This is really fun, I like it a lot. It's great that it's all client-side, real, and does exactly what it says.
what does it mean Loaded 21954 wallets ?
maybe some quantum algo can guess every key at once.
lol. It's fun. Not that I could ever guess it right realistically but it's fun.
This kind of fun thing's exactly why I'm on the internet. Thanks for sharing! :D