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Comment by mpeg

1 year ago

Very useful! I'll refer to it when I forget my UUIDs, I use this site all the time to remember my bitcoin private key [0]

[0]: https://privatekeys.pw/keys/bitcoin/1

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manmal  1 year ago

Thanks for this, I didn't know that people create weak BTC keys for fun. I guess some are also used as bot honeypots?

  • therein  1 year ago

    Back in the day people used to SHA256 a passphrase and create a Bitcoin private key from it.

  • lxgr  1 year ago

    Definitely! Takes a bit of time to go through all of them, though.

  • manmal  1 year ago

    I think people don’t get what I mean. A key with just 0s and a 1 at the last digit is very weak. Yet someone created a wallet with it for fun.

Jabbles  1 year ago

I'm sure there are people who will search for their actual private key, potentially leaking it.