There are newfags on this board who don't know you can comb the Bitcoin blockchain for unclaimed BTC

>>60659964 (OP)
yup. been making 100k a year lookin at private keys:
https://privatekeys.pw/keys/bitcoin/1

i remember when i had my first soda

>>60659974
Ever had any luck with brainwallets?

https://github.com/RNBBarrett/BrainWalletQuery

newfag here. Qrd?

How much is unclaimed? And why?

>>60660065
I have not tried this one. I like Keys.lol

>>60659964 (OP)
How do you do it? I asked AI once how to do it and the answer was basically that it would take thousands of years.

>>60660116
Looks like it's just a random number generator that spit out all possible combinations for btc private keys and the website displays any balance on them. But so far, I've gone through several different keys by hitting random and not one has any btc in them. This concept is ridiculous - there's zero chance that you can just randomly come across a private key that has btc in it, import it to a wallet and then transfer it to your own. Absurd nonsense.

>>60660126
That's what I thought, I don't have the age of the universe at my disposal to do that.

>>60660132
The idea that a list of private keys could be compiled is retarded. If someone had such a list, they could technically just import all of them and literally own all btc even created.

>>60660126
That's why I asked about brainwallets, because a brainwallet is just a private key derived from a passphrase. I imagine back in the day some OG bitcoiners generated sup3rs3kur3 passphrase wallets to fuck around/test stuff.
If you brute forced a big phrase dictionary you might stumble across an old wallet with btc balance.

Rumor has it that Satoshi himself used a brainwallet for one of his early wallets. There's all kinds of strange clues in his email correspondances. Strange references and deliberate typos. I have a whole list of them. Whoever cracks it will be a multi millionaire at the very least. Wish me luck.

>>60660147
In the future it might be more viable to just continually generate wallets and check for balance than to actually mine bitcoin. Even mnemonic phrase brute force might become profitable

https://github.com/XopMC/CudaBrainSecp

>>60660154
It does reduce the number of possible combinations, but I think the probability is still very low. The lottery must have higher odds. After all, letting a raspberry PI do that, why not.

>>60660157
What if we used the original bitcoin whitepaper to generate a wordlist or phrase list? Ehh surely someone has already done this

Also: https://github.com/Qalander/KeyHunt-Cuda
https://secretscan.org/programs

Am I to believe, as God's own truth, that one could simply stumble across a private key, blockchains very own elusive and secretive safeguard, with a balance on it and import it as their own?

>>60660180
Yes ma'am.
If you want to try this out go to
https://www.bitaddress.org
Click on "brain wallet"
Type in a passphrase and click View
Then copy and import the private key into a bitcoin wallet like Electrum
See if you've hit the jackpot!

You can see some brainwallets that have already been cracked and drained here:
https://privatekeys.pw/brainwallet/bitcoin/1

>>60660197
>type in a passphrase
how in the fuck would you even begin to think of what to enter?
Also, I might be retarded but are there really this many private BTC keys in existence?:
>2.573157538606 x 1075
Or is that just the number of pages with results on this privatekeys website? And if there are that many keys, why are nearly all of them empty with no transactions?

>>60660204
That's 10 to the power of 75, by the way

>>60660116
When addresses are truly randomly generated you have a fuck all chance of colliding with it and even with the birthday problem it ain't happening.

But as mentioned here there's plenty of wallets generated with way less than random passwords. Brainwallets, but also some Bitcoin wallets had shitty implementations of randomizers so the output of wallets was actually way smaller and therefore breakable. If some oldfag didn't move his coins you could get rich

>>60660204
>why are nearly all of them empty with no transactions?
why is most the universe, even between atoms, empty? same reason

To give you a sense of scale of the problem of guessing a private key btw (not a brainwallet). If the entire search space of private keys was a large white square image printed at 300dpi, and the private key you were trying to correctly guess was a single red pixel on that image, the image itself would be 3.05 x 10^18 light years tall and wide. You could lay 10s of millions of observable universes end to end inside that image and still have space.

And you're trying to guess the location of a single red pixel in that image. You ain't never guessing the private key correctly.

Pro tip (I should really be charging you for this info)
The best you can do is to scour OpenSSL for bugs that existed in early bitcoin time, specifically around entropy for random seed generation. There are several bugs from that time that vastly limit the search space of private keys generated. Exploit that fact. With any luck you can crack an early wallet.

>>60660204
Keys.lol explains it better

>How does this work?
A private key is basically just a number between 1 and 2256. This website generates keys for all of those numbers, spread out over pages of 128 keys each.

>This website doesn't actually have a database of all private keys, that would take an impossible amount of disk space. Instead, keys are procedurally generated on the fly when a page is opened.

So really you could take any string, convert to sha-256 hash, and that's a valid bitcoin private key. People have used really stupid passphrases in the past. Likely more are to be discovered.
I'm thinking of brute forcing the Hindi dictionary

>>60660214
Yeah but why do they exist if they're not in use? Or is that website returning private key numbers that haven't been generated yet?

>>60660219
>A private key is basically just a number between 1 and 2^256.
Aka 256bit keyspace

>>60660219
>hindi dictionary
I was about to say I bet popular biblical verses are popular passphrases.

And so just how illegal is it if you happen to stumble across a btc address with a balance and immediately import the private key to a safepal wallet and transfer that to jewbase?

>>60660116
Yes, its impossible to "comb through the blockchain for unclaimed btc" unless you can brute force guess the private keys. It requires an asynchronous signature to send anything. Thats why bitcoin has genuine value. Except for the lack of smart contract Integration.

>>60660223
Yes there's a few on that brain wallet page, also star wars quotes and meme phrases.
What's interesting is that people could have tested out brainwallets back in the early days with some miniscule amount of BTC and then never used it or forgot about it. Just a silly 0.1 BTC or something... 12 years ago that was loose change, who cares. But today?
I think there's still some gold to be found here

>>60660233
Newfags like you don't know. It's a pretty well guarded secret because if everyone did combing the profits from it would drop.

>no one answers my question about how potentially illegal it might be to snatch a balance if it was discovered

>>60660288
I didnt know you had a quantum computer in your basement. Why dont you go to the front of the class and present it to everyone?

>>60660363
There's probably no legal precedent for claiming crypto by guessing a private key.

>>60660363
Nigger are you retarded?
Crypto is the wild west and if you guess someone's private key, it's yours and nobody can prove otherwise.

>>60659964 (OP)
I used to do this a lot, nowadays the find ratio is not that great

Instead I comb for faucets that still have some bitcoin left, they are easier to find but you need to know how to extract the right data from search engine results

>>60659964 (OP)
>tfw going through archived version of bitcoin faucets
>tfw one of them works
>tfw got 5 BTC this way

am i safe against this if im using a wallet.dat file with bitocin core backed up to a usb drive? t brainlet

>>60660533
>>60660557
Qrd?