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SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

47 points by ilarum

by sunir

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I don't get it. That wasn't hard. What do I do with the key now that I have it?

by curiousObject

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>At one spin per millisecond (faster than this app runs), you'd expect a hit roughly once per 1.7 × 10⁶² years — about 10⁵² times the current age of the universe. The heat death of the universe occurs first
Alright! Now there’s only the heat death of the universe standing between me and massive wealth? I like these odds.

by meowface

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I'm not opposed to LLM-generated code at all, but the such obviously LLM-written README is annoying. The style is so easy to spot. At least try to figure out how to prompt it to not write so obviously like an LLM. (And no, I'm not even referring to the em dashes.)

by sunrunner

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99% of gamblers quit before they win big. In this case, really big. I am going to be the 1%. Or should that be the 1.9e-71%.

by int32_64

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A better project would be to take the exact key generation function at the time Satoshi started it and mine possible PRNG parameters.

by amarant

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I dunno if I'm missing something, but I can't see the actual guessed key anywhere on the site?
So if I win, I won't be able to actually claim the Mooney's?

by opengrass

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There's also the Large Bitcoin Collider. Last time coins were recovered was 9 years ago. https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about

by FajitaNachos

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I made a similar concept, but it wasn't self hosted. I never made the front page though! Congrats. Could you add a video of the experience to GitHub. Without that I wasn't willing to download and give it a go

by CobrastanJorji

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What's really fun is that, if you win and do anything about it, Bitcoin's value immediately crashes.

by ex-aws-dude

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Question is does the dev sneak in some secret notification code if someone hits it?

by starkeeper

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So is this a door-knocking bitcoin robbery game?

by runj__

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I got a couple of hits by pressing command-R _really_, _really_ fast. But transferring from Nakamoto's wallet feels a bit like fucking with the first bootprints in the lunar regolith.

by MattCruikshank

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Quick question - why hasn't someone 51 percent attacked Satoshi's wallets?
Estimated cost of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, if no one is cooperating, is $6 billion to $10 billion.
Surely the cost goes down if they get some big players to cooperate.
And the reward is... $83 billion. Basically 10x your money.
I mean, this is the kind of thing that we could sell bonds for, to raise the $6 to $10 billion needed.
Other than the fact that you'd be de-legitimizing BTC, the very thing you're trying to steal. Or morals - them, too. Other than that?

by zikduruqe

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https://keys.lol is just as fun.

by sciencesama

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can use collaborated list to remove the random numbers that failed already.

by logicallee

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This is really fun, I like it a lot. It's great that it's all client-side, real, and does exactly what it says.

by fred_is_fred

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If you actually won this amount of money it would effectively ruin your life. You and your family would never be safe from a wrench attack - from criminals or a nation-state.

by fred_is_fred

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Is the search space too big to effectively divide it up GIMPS-style. How do the odds look if every laptop on earth was trying this?

by SilentM68

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Hmm, maybe this can help me win the Monopoly Lottery :)

by m3kw9

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Why wouldn't the host just send themselves the key first and then have everyone pull slot machine for them. If you do win it, you are not seeing a penny if you roll from that site.

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by jan_Sate

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lol. It's fun. Not that I could ever guess it right realistically but it's fun.
This kind of fun thing's exactly why I'm on the internet. Thanks for sharing! :D

by m3kw9

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what does it mean Loaded 21954 wallets ?

by m3kw9

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maybe some quantum algo can guess every key at once.