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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
KingZee
on 28/12/2018, 15:08:20 UTC
Hi

I scanned 58CE to 58CF,  no key found.


because it is random

I finally understood why there are so many new people here coming up with dumb ideas on this thread, it's because they think this is actually a puzzle.

This is not a puzzle, this is a cryptographic test of how much time it would take to crack a private key given a limited range of entropy. Of course I'm sure if the prize was a bit higher per address, we'd have more computing power on it..

The prize is also not 32 BTC, because if you manage to crack the last few addresses, you might as well try to crack the richest address in the network. Guess that makes this "puzzle" have over a 100k btc in prize!