BIP39 brute-force complexity (or how hard it is to break someone's secret words)

Building on the previous comment. A human lifespan (in a good case) is ~ 2838240000 seconds (90 years). With a ~0.0000000000000000088162076% chance to find an address with a balance every second - in 90 years the network would have ~0.0000000250225131% chance to find a wallet with anything in it.

~0.0000000250225131% in 90 years!.

I have ~ 100% chance to not being alive in 90 years :slight_smile:

~0.00000142857% is the chance of being struck by lightning in any year.
So it’s ~0.00012857142% chance to be struck at least once in 90 years.

And remember - all of this is for standard 12 word wallets. To get the results for a paper wallet - take the same numbers and multiply them by infinity :slight_smile:

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