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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
ZafotheNinja
on 18/11/2018, 21:00:26 UTC
No, it would require much more than 2^80 work. Or you would require 2^80 work + a storage capable of containing a hash table of 2^80 * (256 bit + 80 bit)  = 336 * 2^80 bit = 2^88.4 bit = more than 2^38 PB.

The current max size of my hash table is now 2^28 * (64 bit + 32 bit) = 96 * 2^28 bit = 2^34.58 bit = 24 GB (to store 2^28 keys in ram). It is only 1/2^54 of 2^88.4!

It is not possible to get such amount of ram in the next 40 years.

Could you go a bit more into how you get the numbers in the parentheses? You lost me there.