Ethereum address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

etherscan.io/address/0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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?

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>trying to access one of dalvik's wallets
he's gonna curse you with some weird siberian evil eye

>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

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.

etherscan.io/address/0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead
oh hey I found another burn address. I don't know enough about the ethereum protocol to say if there's anything preventing a key from hashing into an address like one of these.

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

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.

>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.

i know but it was fun watching the addresses fly by in the terminal window :^(

>wasting milliseconds every hash to print something to a a console

As long as he's not forcing a flush for every print then it's not really going to waste any time.

Ethereum isn't that secure.

>It might be, but "proving" that it's inaccessible would require a vulnerability in the hash algorithm.
Why is that?

i removed that part but its pointless anyway because it will never find the address in a million years

Why not just mine coins using that wasted power?

Who is dalvik? That literally a tiny village with 100 people i used to live in

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

>im already mining coins with gpu's anyway
99% sure thats not economically viable unless you live in a socialist country with subsidized electricity

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.

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.

so does your fucking fiat

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.

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."

There's also something called a dalvik cache in android which does a small bit of virtualization. Coincidence?

Literally Hitler

ethersecret.com
enjoy rolling the dice forever

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.

>ethersecret.com
I'm tempted to test and see what it does if it finds something.

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?

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.

anyone manage to win this?

Dalvik is the original name of the Android's JVM.

>intrinsic value