Quote from: an0therlr3 on September 11, 2011, 07:21:33 AM

Quote from: netrin on September 09, 2011, 01:50:20 PM

Out of curiosity, do you have any idea the longest minimal firstbit today?

Assuming you don't need anything meaningful, I'd say it's at 1+4 or even 1+3 if you're lucky.

I was thinking the other way around. Such as if there were both 123456789a and 123456789b, then the longest firsbits might be 1+9.

Quote from: an0therlr3 on September 11, 2011, 07:21:33 AM

Quote from: netrin on September 09, 2011, 01:50:20 PM

Even better, has anyone graphed the shortest/average/longest as a function of blocks (time) with predictions into the future?

Predicting it would be hard since it depends on the rate of transactions.

Yes, and that would be a fine independent variable, various min, max, averages per transaction. I could calculate it I had a dump of all addresses per block. Can the blk*.dat tell me that? I don't want to DoS blockexplorer with wget/curl requests.