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60 sats \ 7 replies \ @nullcount 31 Jul 2022 \ on: How can I create a bot to automatically sweep a list of private keys? bitcoin

Just use this website: https://privatekeys.pw/keys/bitcoin/1

Their site will index any range of private keys you specify and it shows the current balance as well as the balance transfers.

Your key is on there too. But you shouldn't search for it directly (obviously) just tab through enough pages until you find it. Good luck!

115 sats \ 4 replies \ @02d10975a1 31 Jul 2022

This always boggles my mind. I get the math, but still I feel that there's a chance that I find a key with coins in it. Or that someone guesses my key. It's a infinitesimally small chance, but there's a chance. If someone is lucky enough, they might stumble on it.

85 sats \ 2 replies \ @nullcount 31 Jul 2022

The odds are orders of magnitude better to win the mega millions. You're better off buying $5 lottery tickets than spending $5 on power so your computer can make trillions of guesses for private keys. Even if you find a key, relatively few keys have multiple millions of USD worth of BTC. Many many more keys have less than 1 BTC. You're also better off putting that computational energy through an ASIC. Which is how BTC defends itself from this. But the existence of a state run lottery also helps punish those who are poor at math.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @tech5 OP 31 Jul 2022

I actually have a finite list of keys I am sweeping. Only about 100 that I would like to sweep once an hour. How can I do that?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 31 Jul 2022

Pick up a copy of @jimmysong 's Programming Bitcoin. It breaks down the math behind all the cryptography and encoding schemes.

Then you use something like electrum server to index your local copy of the Blockchain and parse all the UTXO scripts and check if any of them can be unlocked by the signatures derived from your list of private keys.

You only have to scan the whole chain once, then you check every new block.

Run your script with cron for every hour. Or set up some trigger that runs when a new block is added (that's your best bet if you want be the first to sweep it)