Introducing 21 Baller: I made sets of ball bearings numbered 0000 through 2047 \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Introducing 21 Baller: I made sets of ball bearings numbered 0000 through 2047 21baller.com

12 sats \ 8 comments \ @DiracDelta 20 May 2023 bitcoin

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @BTCMiner 21 May 2023

The website assumes I know how a set of ball bearings can result in my private key.

I don't know.

The text and photo from the BTCPay shopping cart provided more info:

2048 chrome steel 6.35mm diameter BIP39 balls in a bottle. 32 bags of 64 balls for ease of verification. 0-indexed numbering (0000-2047). Numbers only (words do not fit nicely). 1.25kg approx ball weight (approx 39g/bag). Note: for full entropy, you must replace each ball and reshake before pulling next one -- however, if my math is correct (don't trust me), you only get about an 11% drop in entropy by pulling 23 at once, which is pretty negligible.

https://btcpay.getchroma.co/apps/4ToHZxCVD7UW5wEvkfjKq5S22VYY/pos

So I need 23 values (balls) each of the 2048 (i.e., range from 0 to 2047) and that somehow gives me what I need for a private key? If so, how? I don't compute.

25 sats \ 2 replies \ @DiracDelta OP 21 May 2023

The final word is a checksum that you need a computer, typically a signing device ("hardware wallet") to generate.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTCMiner 21 May 2023

What I mean is ...

Can't the site be a bit more forgiving and simply help out the noobs and say something to the effect of:

"Each ball corresponds to one of the 2048 seed words from BIP-39, which is used with any wallet or cold storage device that supports BIP-39."

(or whatever the procedures are to go from shaking this thing to sleeping peacefully because your keys were generated with a exceptional randomness).

I.e., ELI5

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiracDelta OP 22 May 2023

Yeah, I agree it is worth adding an ELI5 section... tbh, I just did this because I thought it was neat and made the website in a few hours. Not expecting anyone to get this who doesn't have a pretty good understanding of what it is, but since I've only sold 2 so far, and I do want to recoup mfg costs, I'll probably get around to it.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @AJ1992 20 May 2023

699k sats for a bag of balls. Yeah, I'm good with the two I already got that were provided free of charge. This screams desperation/pointless. I read thru the first page of the website but still don't see the point of obtaining the balls you're selling.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DiracDelta OP 22 May 2023

Going to your profile and the first interactions I see people had with you make a lot of sense:

"Lol you're a shitcoining shitlib and don't even understand how bitcoin works."

"I don't try to convince retard faggots of anything. Fuck off"

Can't say I disagree with their sentiment toward you.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AJ1992 22 May 2023

So instead of telling me and explaining to me the actual use for your product, you just insult and belittle me? Definitely makes me think your product is a scam now because it seems like you can't defend it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiracDelta OP 21 May 2023

Hey, buddy, it's totally ok if you make minimum wage and are happy to roll dice 100 times and verify math on a raspberry pi zero because your time isn't worth very much, you can just tell us that.