I'm bored, nothing interesting is happening around these woods no more. Nobody has new and exciting ideas no more.
Something on mind for some time now, I wonder why 160 bit? Why not keep adding coins to 165, 170 etc?
And is it really feasible brute forcing any key beyond 80 bit? With no pub exposed of course.
I guess from 81 to 159 will not be solved in the next decade, why bother keeping them in there when we can use them as extra incentive for higher ranges, like adding them to 165, 170, 175 etc?
Good luck to all.😴
Have you noticed that there are at most 2^160 private keys instead of 2^256? Any key above that will generate a repeated RIPEMD160 hash.
That's why there are no keys from 160 to 256 anymore; the creator of the challenge realized it was redundant.