Quote from: mcdouglasx on Today at 10:51:23 AM

Quote from: digaran on September 01, 2023, 11:47:09 PM

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.😴

It's not that we don't have new ideas, it's that we don't share them for our own interest, I thought about sharing how I reduce the bits from 130 to 107, in a range of 1000 possible pubkey, but I haven't done it, because the The time when you did something important and people contributed to the developer.
I don't have how to update my PC, so bit 100-107 is still too much for me. An example of what I am saying is keyhunt, it is a tool used by thousands or millions and has only received a little more than 10k in donations.
If I get to unlock a puzzle, I'll share it, while not because nowadays people don't even post the pk of the last puzzles solved.

If you can solve a puzzle with your idea, delete all social media accounts, remove yourself from online world, use a new pc with tor+vpn enabled to transfer the funds and never ever come back to this forum to post or share anything, and only solve the next puzzle after 4, 6 month.

If you like to live long. This is my advice to anyone.
However if you first share your idea and then puzzles start getting solved, nobody would look at your direction but if your idea could be used to crack any 256 bit key, then cryptocurrencies no more!