Feeling the January slump and craving an effortless victory? Interested in risk-free bitcoin (BTC) gambling? A GitHub user named Coinables has created a website called Mnemonic Slots, where you can spin a seed-phrase slot machine that instantly checks if the generated address contains any BTC. The site boldly promises “Unlimited Free Spins = Unlimited Fun!”
But is it truly worth your time to play?
The majority of BTC holders secure their private keys using seed phrases. These phrases offer several advantages: they are easier for humans to read, potentially memorable, and reduce errors compared to raw private keys.
The slot machine uses twelve-word seed phrases. Considering there are 12 positions and 2,048 possible words from the BIP39 list, this results in 2128, or approximately 3.4 × 1038, unique combinations — an astronomically large number.
An unimaginable span of about 378 trillion trillion years would be required to have even a chance at hitting a valid address with funds.
You might wonder: with unlimited free spins available, how long would it realistically take for you to become a millionaire?
Using insights from Bitcoin analytics platform Newhedge, Protos analyzed these odds so you can decide whether playing is worthwhile.
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Around 57 million Bitcoin addresses currently hold some amount of BTC. However, most (about 52.6 million) contain less than 0.01 BTC — under $1,000 at today’s rates.
An additional roughly 3.4 million addresses possess between 0.01 and one full BTC.
A smaller subset exceeding 144,000 addresses each hold over ten bitcoins (valued near $910K), meaning there remain opportunities—albeit slim—to strike it rich as a BTC-millionaire by chance alone.
The site provocatively asks: “Someone has got to win—why not you?” But what does that mean in terms of actual gameplay duration before seeing success?
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If each spin takes two seconds without pause—a highly dedicated player could theoretically complete nearly sixteen million spins annually nonstop around the clock.
Evenso, the staggering odds translate into needing about 378 quadrillion quadrillion years (that's trillions upon trillions longer than our universe has existed) to land on any funded wallet address just once.
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