So, this is the modern equivalent of the lost city of gold, El Dorado. Can it be unlocked? Is it just a matter of luck? Is it even possible? Is it possible that no private key hashes to an address of 0? Some CS guys at my uni claim to me that there are addresses that are inaccessible and that 0 is one of them. None of them are crypto experts though. Any cryptofags care to share your knowledge? What's the truth?
>trying to access one of dalvik's wallets he's gonna curse you with some weird siberian evil eye
Juan Gray
>dalvik's This address is special -- it receives a lot of mistaken transfers and also is a popular "burn" address for software running on the eth blockchain. Its ethereum balance of 7 million is dwarfed by the $650M of shitcoins / tokens
Leo Diaz
it's statistically unlikely but unless there's something in the code preventing a private key hashing to all 0's it should be possible.
i wrote a script to randomly generate private keys + addresses and stop when it finds 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 or 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead
wish me luck. see you in 100 billion years
Jose Brown
your effort and compute would be better wasted trying to crack the hashing algorithm rather than crack the hash. Join us in quantum computing land.
John Taylor
>So, this is the modern equivalent of the lost city of gold, El Dorado. The good (bad?) thing about Eth is if someone managed to take anything out of it they'd just hard fork it. >claim to me that there are addresses that are inaccessible and that 0 is one of them It might be, but "proving" that it's inaccessible would require a vulnerability in the hash algorithm.
Henry Lewis
i know but it was fun watching the addresses fly by in the terminal window :^(
Easton Smith
>wasting milliseconds every hash to print something to a a console
Jace Roberts
As long as he's not forcing a flush for every print then it's not really going to waste any time.
Grayson Peterson
Ethereum isn't that secure.
Noah Perez
>It might be, but "proving" that it's inaccessible would require a vulnerability in the hash algorithm. Why is that?
Adrian Cooper
i removed that part but its pointless anyway because it will never find the address in a million years
Asher Ramirez
Why not just mine coins using that wasted power?
Adrian Mitchell
Who is dalvik? That literally a tiny village with 100 people i used to live in
Daniel Evans
because i wanted to see if i could make the script myself. im not even running it anymore. im already mining coins with gpu's anyway
Jaxson Wright
>im already mining coins with gpu's anyway 99% sure thats not economically viable unless you live in a socialist country with subsidized electricity
Brandon Butler
ok you literally don't know jack shit about mining then. a single gtx 1080 can pay itself off in a few months. whattomine.com if you want current rates if you think im bullshitting you.
Jonathan Reed
if it doesn't crash and burn next week.
Bitcoin and cryptocoins are highly speculative and price is only made by demand. bitcoin has no intrinsic value.
Noah Martin
so does your fucking fiat
Elijah Bailey
or you can just sell into fiat to avoid that entirely. >intrinsic value nothing has intrinsic value. especially not paper money.
Please don't try to act 99% sure about something you know 0% about.
Jordan Rivera
The security of a hash algorithm depends on the fact that you can't prove anything about the output. When you can start proving shit about the output then it's "vulnerable."
Evan Thompson
There's also something called a dalvik cache in android which does a small bit of virtualization. Coincidence?
Isaiah Clark
Literally Hitler
Jaxon Adams
ethersecret.com enjoy rolling the dice forever
Daniel Morgan
and how much intrinsic value has gold had for the thousands of years it's been used as currency? its value is derived from its scarcity and the real-world effort it takes to mine it. similarly, bitcoin supply is limited (scarce) and it takes real world energy to mine it. learn the basics before you talk.
Grayson Adams
>ethersecret.com I'm tempted to test and see what it does if it finds something.
Jace Myers
i guarantee you the person who made that site set it up so if any value is ever anything but 0 it transfers the ethereum to his own address. if he didnt hes stupid. i mean yeah hes going to die before anyone hits a non zero value but why risk the one in gorillion chance over an hour of code?
Nicholas Flores
I guarantee you the entire thing is a script that runs in your browser, not on his server. You're free to look through the code and check if it does that if you want. More likely, the site operator is more focused on things that'll actually pay out, like ads or embedded crypto miners.