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Re: Bitcoin challange transaction: ~100 BTC total bounty to solvers!
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hatshepsut93
on 19/07/2019, 20:08:23 UTC
By the way, isn't it kinda scary that a few keys in 80 and 90 bit ranges were already found? Many users have passwords with less bits of security, and passwords also aren't random, so bruteforce can be optimized. Or am I missing something, and those keys were cracked with some algorithm rather than brute force?

if you want to have fun, you can program something. i did that a while ago in c# for small ones as a "challenge" to my skills knowing there is no other reward.

So, I did it and it takes 2.5 ms for me to calculate an address from a raw private key  Cry