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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
DannyHamilton
on 28/12/2015, 20:03:06 UTC
So how were the results on the OP reached? Simply luck?

I'm pretty sure that the results that have been found by the OP so far were found with brute force attempting every value between 1 and 220.

The problem is that finding each subsequent result requires exponentially more attempts than the current result, so as the number of bits increases it becomes much, Much, MUCH more difficult to check the entire search space.