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Bitcoin private keys are integers between 1 and 1077
If you were able to make a trillion guesses per second, you’d have to guess for about 3.3 decillion (1033) years to find the private key to a particular Bitcoin address. Of course it’s always possible that scientific advances, such as quantum computing, could make it feasible to crack a Bitcoin address. In this case, Bitcoin would have to hard fork to quantum-resistant cryptography. The following infographic helps to give an idea of the difficulty of brute-forcing a Bitcoin private key:
https://m.stacker.news/16363
hmm... are you sure there's only 1077 private keys?
According to this site there are
0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4141
or around 1.1579208924×10^77
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it s 10 exponantial 77 and not 1077...
Wrong infomration from this web page : https://www.coinmama.com/blog/40-surprising-facts-about-bitcoin/
This webpage provides the right information
https://bitzuma.com/posts/six-things-bitcoin-users-should-know-about-private-keys/
Thanks againn to correct it and Mea Culpa
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