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Re: Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~100 BTC total bounty to solvers!
by
Raj Lassi
on 28/08/2019, 01:52:26 UTC
IMHO
ranges should go from blah...blah...00000000 to blah...blah...FFFFFFFF
just to keep things neat and tidy.  maybe i am OCD.

why are all these bizarre ranges being scanned?
like 2b87eefd01e43a40 - 2b87f0798ea43a40
it makes no sense to me.

is something being converted from decimal?
that makes even less sense.

i just don't get it.  enlighten me.

Yeah so that range is within the 62-bit range, what is the problem?

i am just saying that, for me, for reasons of accounting and clarity, in my messed up mind (and probably in the perfectly good minds of others), i prefer a block to start on a 00 and end on FF. 

for example:
A600000000 - A6FFFFFFFF
3B92C70000000000 - 3B92C7FFFFFFFFFF
0000 - FFFF

like that.  it makes sense to me and is easy to understand.

what i do not understand, is how people come up with these ranges with some arbitrary collection of least significant bytes.
(no example given)

and i wonder where these come from.  are hands mashed down on a hex keyboard?  is it somebody's birthday?  their name in ascii?  is it just random?  is it some nice round decimal number that converts to god-awful looking hex.  Why is decimal even mentioned in this forum?

just wondering why.  not saying it is right or wrong.  it just does not align with my thought process.