Re: Why have Satoshi's early mined coins an unusual nonce value distribution?
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All in all, people WANT to find magic patterns so they can discern order out of randomness.
Alas it is pointless. Random is as random does. Any patterns found will be there for some programming necessity (or bug), not some secret illuminati code to allow you to find those 800,000 BTC - bad luck to you
All in all, people WANT to find magic patterns so they can discern order out of randomness.
Alas it is pointless. Random is as random does. Any patterns found will be there for some programming necessity (or bug), not some secret illuminati code to allow you to find those 800,000 BTC - bad luck to you
If you look at this gif image (least significant byte LSB values for the blocks mined 2009 - mid 2010)
https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/fc6YYk56-1or1frmly82jpxw4lpetmwq.gif
source: https://news.bitcoin.com/online-sleuths-believe-satoshi-nakamotos-bitcoin-stash-is-a-blockchain-treasure-hunt-meant-to-be-found/
then you can see that there are several ranges where the LSB values are not distributed uniformly. The whole picture should look like the values 60 - 255, then we could say that it is random. But what was done here can't be there for some programming necessity or bug, and why should Satoshi mine these values onto the blockchain?
Btw. Satoshi's blocks contain 1.1 million BTC and not 800,000.
What exactly is this chart showing that the addresses/keys could be in a set range?