On: Richest Bitcoin Addresses

[josephagoss]

You could run vanitygen to guess the private key to any Bitcoin address. It might take a few billion years.

[mrmagoo312 → josephagoss]

Time to find a billion computers to run it on

[hnha → josephagoss]

It could also take just one day if you are lucky. It impossible to predict, just like the future of bitcoin.

[dontblink → hnha]

Equivalent of a bitcoin lottery?

[josephagoss → dontblink]

If you want to play the Bitcoin lottery, it's a far better idea to focus your computing power on solo mining. You have far more chance guessing a 25 bitcoin block than getting a valid private key.