user93612: I have heard that Large Bitcoin Collider can only break into wallets that are created by broken software. 
My other question is that it seems the last private key that they found was on 2017-11-15 01:25:58 UTC. Am I right? Does it mean that their project is not successful any more?

user13866: See Why the Large Bitcoin Collider poses no threat to Bitcoin which explains some of the mathematics involved in an accessible way (perhaps overly so).
It gives an example of taking over the whole bitcoin network worldwide and spending $75 million on electricity every 3.5 days but taking 2,250,000,000,000,000 years to find one private key associated with unspent Bitcoin.
The LBC is no threat to any wallet which chooses private keys randomly - as they all should.

user49502: LBC exhaustively searches a relatively small area in the 256 bit private key space. It's not a general wallet cracker, broken or otherwise; rather, it will find a private key that is known to be in the vicinity of its searches. One example that sits in the blockchain is the so-called puzzle transaction, which was created to deliberately reward people who manage to crack successively more "difficult" keys. It may also discover some keys which were created in error - say, by a program (over)writing 32 random bits in the same memory location 8 times, instead of writing 32 random bits into 8 sequential locations - but it's not a general purpose wallet cracker.
I'm unsure if LBC is still in operation, but there have been subsequent keys in the puzzle transaction cracked, the most recent one (as I type this) in March 2019: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15
You can read more about the puzzle transaction here, including posts by the person that created it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0

93612: <p>I have heard that Large Bitcoin Collider can only break into wallets that are created by broken software. 
My other question is that it seems the <a href="https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/trophies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">last</a> private key that they found was on 2017-11-15 01:25:58 UTC. Am I right? Does it mean that their project is not successful any more?</p>
 13866: <p>See <a href="https://brd.com/blog/large-bitcoin-collider" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Why the Large Bitcoin Collider poses no threat to Bitcoin</a> which explains some of the mathematics involved in an accessible way (perhaps overly so).</p>

<p>It gives an example of taking over the whole bitcoin network worldwide and spending $75 million on electricity every 3.5 days but taking 2,250,000,000,000,000 years to find one private key associated with unspent Bitcoin.</p>

<p>The LBC is no threat to any wallet which chooses private keys <em>randomly</em> - as they all should.</p>
 49502: <p>LBC exhaustively searches a relatively small area in the 256 bit private key space. It's not a general wallet cracker, broken or otherwise; rather, it will find a private key that is known to be in the vicinity of its searches. One example that sits in the blockchain is the so-called puzzle transaction, which was created to deliberately reward people who manage to crack successively more "difficult" keys. It may also discover some keys which were created in error - say, by a program (over)writing 32 random bits in the same memory location 8 times, instead of writing 32 random bits into 8 sequential locations - but it's not a general purpose wallet cracker.</p>

<p>I'm unsure if LBC is still in operation, but there have been subsequent keys in the puzzle transaction cracked, the most recent one (as I type this) in March 2019: <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15</a></p>

<p>You can read more about the puzzle transaction here, including posts by the person that created it: <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0</a></p>
