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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
WanderingPhilospher
on 05/04/2023, 11:04:44 UTC
I found a way to speed up the brute force attack method, drop the hash160 conversion to address, because that conversion requires a SHA-256D, that is equal as mining bitcoin, now if we skip that part, what percentage can we gain in speed increase?

True. It's how Brainflayer and keyhunt in RMD160 mode work. Much much faster and results in the same output eventually. I wish bitcrack would update to rmd mode. Might double speed.
Are y'all talking about loading/searching for hash160 versus address? I ask because this comment kind of confused me, "drop the hash160 conversion to address".

Yes
Then you are correct. This has been known and Vanity, KeyhuntCuda, do in fact already do this. I’m not sure about bitcrack; I’d have to look at the code.