Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

Just info.

Think in your own way and your own point of view about this WIF range

Do we have GPU crackers for WIF Private Keys? or do we have someone that can build 1? these have more potentials for brute forcing puzzle 66 from the Random Point of view for probably the last 16 - 18 characters ranges scanned sequentially, compared to the hexadecimal private keys because of the checksum involved in the WIF Private keys... this might be it, every hexadecimal key is valid but not all WIFs are which brings us to the point where scanning might be fun to play with

What is the point of this if what you see in every row is just representation of padded zeros?

That is the point right there "padded zeros" as explained earlier, the hexadecimal is just from 0 to F base16 whereas the WIF is a base58 equivalent of that base 16 hexadecimal representation... so what point does this make? Well, I can have 3.625 of the hexadecimal character represented as just 1 character of the WIF... this in otherwords simply means if you are able to hit the correct first 3 WIF characters, then you probably don't have too much range to scan compared to hitting the correct first 3 characters of the hexadecimal representation of the same key... you've got a long way to go bro... So i See some potentials in this WIF bruteforcing for the puzzle 66