Odds of guessing a Seed Phrase vs Odds of winning $1.73B Lottery
The Powerball, which is a multi-state lottery in the United States has now grown to $1.73B and is amongst the top lotteries in the world currently.
The odds to win the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338 *(292 million 201 thousand 338)* The overall odds of winning any powerball prize are about 1 in 25
Now, to calculate the odds of guessing an existing wallet we’ll look at the current total wallets and the total possible wallets. We’ll look at Ethereum for these calculations.
Total ETH wallets: 246,860,000 Possible ETH wallets: 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976
So the odds of finding an existing wallet is approximately 1 in 5,920,363,770,735,015,415,413,993,718,908,291,383,296 *(5 duodecillion 920 undecillion 363 decillion 770 nonillion 735 octillion 15 septillion 415 sextillion 413 quintillion 993 quadrillion 718 trillion 908 billion 291 million 383 thousand 296)*
You’ll have to win the Powerball Jackpot almost 10 times CONSECUTIVELY to be that lucky!
Fun Fact:
Even if you end up guessing the seed phrase to an existing wallet, there’s a very good chance it will be filled some airdropped shitcoins only! #cryptocurrency