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Satoshi Guesser

Every spin generates a random Bitcoin private key and checks if it unlocks one of Satoshi's wallets. The odds are about 1 in 10⁷⁷. It runs free on GitHub Actions, 24 hours a day, across 20 parallel workers — no server, no cloud bill.

If it ever hits, your Discord gets a private message with the key. Nobody else sees it.


Fork it and run it yourself

You don't need to change any code. Fork the repo, add your Discord webhook URL as a secret, and kick off the workflow. That's the whole setup.

Keep your fork public. GitHub only gives unlimited free Actions minutes to public repos. Private repos cap out at 2,000 minutes a month, which won't last a day.

Setting up the webhook secret

In your forked repo, go to Settings, then Secrets and variables, then Actions. Create a new secret named WEBHOOK_URL and paste your Discord webhook URL as the value.

If you don't have a Discord webhook yet: open any Discord channel, go to Edit Channel, find Integrations, and create a new webhook. Copy the URL it gives you.

Starting the workflow

Go to the Actions tab, select "Satoshi Guesser," and click Run workflow. The 20 workers start up within a minute and re-trigger themselves every 6 hours automatically.


What it actually does

Each worker pulls a cryptographically random 256-bit number and treats it as a Bitcoin private key. From that it derives a public key using secp256k1 elliptic curve math, runs it through SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160 to get a hash, then encodes that into a Bitcoin address. The address gets checked against a local list of ~22,000 addresses tied to the Patoshi mining pattern — the wallets widely attributed to Satoshi.

All of this runs inside the GitHub runner. No external API calls, no blockchain queries. Just math.


Why GitHub Actions

Running 20 parallel jobs on GitHub's infrastructure costs nothing for public repos. Each job runs for just under 6 hours before the next scheduled trigger fires and spins up a fresh batch. Across all workers you get roughly 7.42 trillion keys checked per day.

Hits go only to your webhook URL, which GitHub stores as an encrypted secret. Nothing useful gets written to the public logs.

Total keys checked: 1,565,239,372,197,533 Last updated August 30, 2026

Updates every Sunday via an automated commit.


The odds

Keyspace:       2^256  ~  1.16 x 10^77
Keys per day:          ~  7.42 x 10^12
Time to cover 1%:      ~  10^60 years

Nobody is cracking Bitcoin this way. The keyspace is that big on purpose, and running this is closer to confirming Bitcoin works than threatening it.


Inspiration

This project was inspired by SatoshiGuesser by Pathos0925, which does the same thing as a browser-based slot machine. The idea here was to take that concept and move it onto GitHub Actions so it runs continuously for free without needing a browser or a server open.

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Rotating your webhook

gh secret set WEBHOOK_URL --body "your-new-url"

Or update it through Settings if you prefer the UI.

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Tries random Bitcoin private keys against Satoshi's known wallets. Free, runs forever on GitHub Actions.

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