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TallboyOne
on March 8, 2014
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How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak p...
How does that site work which has every bitcoin address listed. Does it just generate those on the fly based on the page number?
palkeo
on March 8, 2014
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Yes, I think so. It just couldn't have generated the list before, it's just not feasible.
kapkapkap
on March 9, 2014
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FWIW, the footer says 'It took a lot of computing power to generate this database. Donations welcome: 1Bv8dN7pemC5N3urfMDdAFReibefrBqCaK;'.
TallboyOne
on March 14, 2014
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Theres also only 10^77 atoms in the universe, and I think 10^80 bitcoin hashes... I think that footer note is being facetious.
nthj
on March 8, 2014
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They might cache the first n pages, too.
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