Quote from: itod on December 28, 2018, 07:09:24 PM

Quote from: KingZee on December 28, 2018, 03:08:20 PM

Quote from: bill32767 on December 28, 2018, 02:36:50 PM

Quote from: racminer on December 26, 2018, 09:59:19 PM

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!

Initially this was called "puzzle" because the structure of the transaction and motivation for it was not obvious, until original sender of the transactions appeared here and confirmed the assumptions that it was structured to prove that brute-force attack on Bitcoin is futile. Alas, blockheads constantly try to solve "something" in this, usually by trying to spot a pattern in walls of digits in every possible notation, missing the point that brute-forcing the private keys is only possible option, and there is no other possible approach. Looks like many humans are not only bad in comprehending extremely large numbers, they also fail to understand what word "random" means.

Absolutely true

The only pattern here is that the private key leading bit is "one" and that private key case #N has N-1 random bits following the leading bit. That's it.