/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53170529
Legit question, why arent there ASICS for that?

Noone knows why not, interesting...

>>53170529
you'd have better odds getting struck by lightning -- three times.

you don't have enough energy in the solar system to count to 2^256 even if you used only 1 joule for every count

>>53171472
you don't even get close to it

>>53171480
Laughs in quantum computing

>>53170529
>Why dont you just mine private keys?
physics

>>53171495
laughs in quantum cryptography

>>53171495
You do realize the cost of quantum computing is far greater than mining. It's simple economics. You make more money mining than trying to break it.

honor code. if everyone just mined each others keys then crypto obviously wouldn't work. but finance doesn't work without a little trust.

>>53171752
But we literally cannot do it.

>>53170529
why dont u just guess login/pw's for banking apps? much better odds

>>53171785
oh... yes your right we can't so you shouldn't even try..

>>53171888
You’d be wasting time.

>>53170529

How about a visualization?

This is the number of bits in a private key

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000


This is how many you can attempt using all of the bitcoin hash rate per second


000000000000000000000000


This is how many you could mine in a year using all bitcoins hash rate

00000000000000000000000000000

Which means you have a

1x220^10 chance or 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of mining a private key over one year using all of bitcoins hashing power

>>53171752
trust is for vaxxies and for science. See picrel if you interested in my opinion regarding the vaxx.

>>53172070
So there's a chance!

>>53172070

What i we used all the GPU's in the world and kept a database so the wouldn't run duplicate entries. We could crack a lot of wallets and steal all the buttcoins.

>>53172206
look up operation to check the database is very slow in this context

>>53170529
>Why dont you just mine private keys?
where do you think Bankmans money went?

>>53172611
it helps if you know cryptography and computer math

>>53170529

This should be fairly easily considering you can't trust a computer, built by man, to generate a true random number.

>>53172663
I like the software that lets you make random numbers with your mouse

>>53170702
>why arent there ASICS for that?
there are.
It's just economically shitty. mining BTC is so (much) much more profitable to mine than to mine private keys out of the 2^256 space.

>>53170529
Because it's mathematically impossible without quantum computers.

>>53172802
windows 10 probably sends your keyfile straight to NSA

>>53172698
>make random numbers with your mouse
using and SDR supposedly gives better results