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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
digaran
on 26/10/2023, 18:00:39 UTC
Guys come on, seeing a few things like puzzle 66, sha256 double, base58 in your scripts is a turn off.🤣

For how long you are going to stick with finding addresses? I believe I have said this before, you don't need to go beyond rmd160 check, just generate public key, do a sha256 and a rmd160 then compare with rmd160 of puzzle, when you convert rmd160 to address, you are doing the following which is unnecessary : adding network byte + sha256d + taking checksum + adding checksum + encoding to base58. So 5 extra steps, 5 useless operations per key.

Anyways, try this one, subtract G 99 times from target, you will have 100 keys in total, then divide them all by 100, one of the results will definitely be the target/100. Then come here ask me what's next. But first I would need to test your script to see if it does what I said.😉