even though it's mathematically improbable, i'm still tempted to try and generate tons of bitcoin wallets trying to duplicate a big wallet
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which is "all current computers working past heat death of the universe" type shit
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the thing about powers of two is each addition to the exponent is a doubling
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this sounds obvious but thing to stress is people don't have intuitions about this unless they work with it a lot
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it's too vast, outside of everyday experience, like contemplating astronomical distances
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I like to illustrate this "holy fuck" feeling with unix time
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32-bit unix time (that is, a number incrementing every second up to 2^32 [well, signed but it doesn't matter])
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can keep going for ~140 years. this is the "year 2038 problem" when 32-bit timestamps roll over
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a 64-bit number (that is, 32 additional doublings past the first 32) can cover ~580 billion years
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... only assuming that other people use good randomness when generating wallets, which I'm pretty sure turned out to be false before
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got clipped from the thread but yeahttps://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/882273814448676865 …
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