Quote from: racminer on Today at 08:41:47 PM

Quote from: WanderingPhilospher on Today at 01:29:05 AM

Concerning #66.

I think I finally have a setup/plan in place for #66.

I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.

The ranges are not sequential, they are random.

TTD's pool has 66 bit space broken down into 2^25 * 2^40 chunks. The ranges are selected randomly however, if a user selects to run 16 ranges in their settings file, then those 16 ranges are sequential.
TTD's pool averages anywhere from 50 to 91 * 2^40 ranges ran in an hour.

It will be interesting:
a) if the pool and myself actually keep plugging along at #66
b) if a = true, which method will find the key first
c) if I don't change up my plan in the next hour, LOL
d) someone else gets lucky (which is all part of it), finds it first

TBC...

looks just like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5166284.msg52304416#msg52304416

Nah, not really...you said "I distribute the scan over the 20-3F keyspace, pick 3 random bytes" whereas my program just randomly generates roughly 800,000 new random key starting points every minute and then sequentially checks 2^20 keys from each random key starting point.