Generate Bitcoin Private Keys and check them against blockexplorer.com
Stupid Python Script that Generates random private keys and checks them in realtime...call this poor mans Mining for BTC - same chances as solo but you could find an address w/ money in it 🤑 This is for entertainment only and is designed to demonstrate how IMPOSSIBLE it is to realistically get a collision and take control of someone else's coin...Credits to @Shlomi for the inspiration...
BIG OL DISCLAIMER: I cannot emphasize this enough - this is for DEMONSTRATION and ENTERTAINMENT purposes ... you will have much better success finding employment, buying bitcoin and holding it than to have this little goofy script find a populated private key with a balance....though if you happen to find a populated address you may as well call the pressess and let em know you beat the odds with that extreme luck.
- Clone this script - download it or in the terminal use
git clone https://github.com/Frankenmint/PKGenerator_Checker/ - Let's install some dependencies!
pip install ecdsa hashlib base58 requests - Navigate to the directory:
cd PKGenerator_Checker - Run it!
python PkMaker.py
- What's Going on?: A random 32 byte Number is generated and encoded into Hex - Basially a number between 1 and 2^256 OR if counting in decimal form: 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936. Then, that key is hashed a few times into a public address according to these standard rules and is fired off to blockexplorer.com using their API. The script then prints the balance to the console window.
- I threw this together while following along this video series and reccomend YOU instead watch through the tutorials for your own benefit and to better grasp what happens at the protocol level for Bitcoin
Here's a demonstration of it in action
