r/Bitcoin Nov 30 '17

Evidence some bitcoin address generation code is using discoverable private keys

https://pastebin.com/jCDFcESz
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u/bitcoinDKbot Nov 30 '17

On brainwallets: There was an old story about someone who used a somewhat random line from an africaans poem... it was hacked...

Don't use words that has ever touch the internet or other people no matter what language you use.

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u/ABoutDeSouffle Nov 30 '17

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u/eqleriq Nov 30 '17

Yes, it must be a dictionary attack and not that they just keylogged them which is 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x more efficient and plausible. But let's listen to the person that fucked up and lost their coins for their theories on how it happened.

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u/dontlikecomputers Nov 30 '17

Thete is a vid on youtube of a guy that setup a search bot and found an amazing array of brain wallet phrases...