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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
BurtW
on 28/12/2015, 18:51:17 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
I see a pattern but I do not think it will help much.

My conjecture is that the sequence number (the BTC amount) simply states the number of random bits in the private key.

Check it out:

The 0.001 BTC output used a 1 bit key (already claimed obviously)

The 0.002 BTC output used a 2 bit key

The 0.003 BTC output used a 3 bit key

etc...

The 0.019 BTC output used a 19 bit key

So I would claim the next unclaimed output uses a 51 bit key.