Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
What you should know, I believe Satoshi placed the keys at least in 50% + of each range, which makes solving them counterproductive financially.
Faith will move mountains, but knowledge will move them faster. The keys position within its range are randomly. You can proof yourself, just check the keys and calculate its position. That's no rocket science. Hint: look at puzzle 25, 31, 60, 63 to get a feeling of what a high position is and puzzles 38, 50, 85 to understand what a low position means
There is no "narrowing the search range solution" for this. You wouldn't have solve the mentioned puzzle otherwise. The key positions for the known keys of today for this puzzle vary from 0.069 (puzzle 38) to 0.97 (puzzle 60), while disregarding puzzles 1-10.Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
I wrote a 190 line algorithm using python this morning. It reduces private keys in high bits to the range I want. For example, I reduced the 80-bit pubkey to 31-bit, this took 3 seconds and it took me 0 seconds to find it with bsgs. It found it while opening the program. My algorithm seems to be working. Just for mathematics, this is mathematics, I have been following this forum for 1 year and read articles on secp256k1 and tried to understand, then a month ago, lightning flashed in my head and I thought about the algorithm until today, finally I decided to write, as you said, faith moves mountains. I think bitcoin is not secure.