<p>It will take significant resources (probably more electricity than can be generated by all fossil fuels on Earth) and time (orders of magnitude greater than the age of the universe) to generate a complete Bitcoin address "rainbow table".</p>

<p>See <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3205/3597">these answers</a> for more details.</p>

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TimCinel
<p>You would hit the heat death of the universe before you came anywhere close to generating even a single already used key pair.</p>

<p>If you don't understand the math in the key pair generation you should take that as an indicator of the uncertain ground on which you tread.</p>

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HayekSplosives
<p>Would one of the better methods to crack Bitcoin be to start creating a massive database of key pairs? It would then be possible to reference the Private key required off the public key from the DB.</p>

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Generating Public & Private key pairs for cracking Bitcoin
John
# Generating Public & Private key pairs for cracking Bitcoin

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-11-24)

Would one of the better methods to crack Bitcoin be to start creating a massive database of key pairs? It would then be possible to reference the Private key required off the public key from the DB.

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-11-24. Score: 4

It will take significant resources (probably more electricity than can be generated by all fossil fuels on Earth) and time (orders of magnitude greater than the age of the universe) to generate a complete Bitcoin address "rainbow table".

See [these answers](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3205/3597) for more details.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-11-25. Score: 1

You would hit the heat death of the universe before you came anywhere close to generating even a single already used key pair.

If you don't understand the math in the key pair generation you should take that as an indicator of the uncertain ground on which you tread.


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