Automating Ethereum Theft
2019-04-23 21:43:37.127257+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
This is fascinating: There's a bot scanning for weak Ethereum wallets, and emptying them. There's similar evidence that the same thing might be happening on the Bitcoin blockchain. There is, of course, no recourse should this happen to you.
What constitutes a strong wallet key? How do you end up generating weak wallet keys? Given the trend towards exponential compute, when does a strong wallet key become a weak wallet key?
A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions