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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  4141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: All bitcoin private keys

As someone with a very basic understanding of bitcoin, what is this?





mk  ·  4141 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What bfv said. However this is not the complete list of possible private keys. Although they are legit, they are being generated on the fly. It would take eons to generate it in full, and no harddrive could store it.

user-inactivated  ·  4141 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Given the private key for an address, you can make transfers. Assuming those really are the private keys for the addresses listed, if you find one with a positive balance you can steal from it.

ButterflyEffect  ·  4141 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. Next question for you and mk, where in the moral realm does something like this fall? I'm assuming these private keys and addresses are associated with mining devices or whatever other ways a person has accumulated bitcoin?

mk  ·  4140 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's really no issue. It's like pointing to the Sahara Desert, and saying that 10 grains of sand in it are someone else's fortune.