The Bitcoin Private Key Improbability Lottery

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The Bitcoin Private Key Improbability Lottery
Did you know that there is a website out there right now that has a huge list of Bitcoin private keys?

Yes, private keys.

The same private keys that are "secret" and known only to the owner of a Bitcoin wallet.

Would it surprise you to know that YOUR private key exists on one of these pages?

Yes. Your private key. No joke.

The same private key to your Electrum wallet. Or to your fancy new hardware wallet. Or even to that cold storage paper wallet THAT HASN'T TOUCHED THE INTERNET.

**See it for yourself: http://directory.io**

I didn't make this website, but I wanted you to know about it.

Why?

Because your wallet is "safe". Math style. You'll never find your own private key, and nobody else will either. In fact, you could spend years and never run across an address on that list that has any balance whatsoever.

To put it in perspective, someone ran the numbers on what you would need to do to compute and store all the private keys:

>So, if you could use the entire planet as a hard drive, storing 1 byte per atom, using stars as fuel, and cycling through 1 trillion keys per second, you'd need 37 octillion Earths to store it, and 237 billion suns to power the device capable of doing it, all of which would take you 3.6717 octodecillion years.
>-- [PSBlake on /r/Bitcoin](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rurll/on_the_subject_of_listing_all_possible_private/)

Of course, you're lucky.

All those math nerds didn't factor in how much incredible luck you have.

You'll show them!

What are you waiting for?

<center>Pick a number between [1](http://directory.io/1) and [904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675](http://directory.io/904625697166532776746648320380374280100293470930272690489102837043110636675)</center>

Good luck.

P.S. The [FAQ](http://directory.io/faq) on that site is amazing.
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