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49386028 No.49386028 [Reply] [Original]

what would happen if I just start keying in random seed phrases into metamask and I accidentally hit someone else's recovery phrase?
I'm rather new to the whole blockchain thing apart from trading crypto and stock for a few years now, and this was the first thing that came to mind when I created my metamask wallet

>> No.49386068

>I'm rather new to the whole blockchain thing
we know

>> No.49386082

YOu are Also new to math

>> No.49386089
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49386089

>>49386028
>what would happen if I just start keying in random passwords into wellsfargo and I accidentally hit someone else's money?
winning the powerball 9 times in a row

>> No.49386121

>>49386089
I could still do it

>> No.49386141

>>49386028
That's exactly why many people only use Metamask for 1 single transaction and use a cold wallet like a Ledger device for permanent storage.
What I often do when I need to transfer, is search for a wallet with a little bit of ETH left in it from the previous user, so I can transfer for free, many people don't empty their wallets and leave a little bit for gas to transfer coins.
A lot of people made a profession out of getting these leftover ETH piece from abandoned wallets, that's called mining.

>> No.49386148

>>49386141
no thats not the reason why, the reason is phishing you absolute midwit stop giving advice you dont know shit

>> No.49386192

>>49386028
2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048 * 2048

>> No.49386253

>>49386121
of course you could, good luck

>> No.49386286

>>49386141
Chefs kiss

>> No.49386995

>>49386089
>>49386192
that would be the case if you were looking for a specific wallet, I was wondering about just hitting any random wallet
>>49386068
thanks for confirming what I already stated

>> No.49387013

>>49386141
thanks for elaborating

>> No.49387077

>>49386995
Hitting an eth adress at random would take something like 3.4 times the time universe has existed given all mass in the known universe was used as energy simentaneusly at a perfect e=mc2 without any energy loss. There was a blog post on this in 2014

>> No.49387126

>>49386121
Only to end up with my twenty dollar wallet

>> No.49387144
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49387144

>>49387077
well I got some time to spare this afternoon so that seems achievable

>> No.49387176

>>49386089
But it’s not IMPOSSIBLE >:)

>> No.49387215

>>49386995
your probabilities to find any wallet is the existing number of wallets : the maximum amount of possible wallets
take trillions away from 2048 ^ 12, you're still left with 2048 ^ 8
the table the original anon gave you explains this

>> No.49387237

>>49386028
OMG I FOUND UNCLE MOSHES SEED ON KEYS.lol

>> No.49387299

>>49386028
You'll go to crypto prison