Quote from: yellowstripes on Today at 12:04:28 PM

Quote from: digaran on Today at 07:38:44 AM

Quote from: yellowstripes on Today at 05:01:41 AM

For those solving puzzle 130... I have been able to reduce 026a0747b3229f32ce2f0f7bd77a7bd306f6c95d27e7c5bee22a417938d9988605 to a 110 bit search range and have the 1st 4 digits. I have worked on this daily for the past 2 months. and unfortunately do not have the hardware that would allow me to perform an optimal search in the range. I am willing to sell this info for the fair price of 1BTC. PM if interested. If you want a clue if what am offering is real...feel free to ask.

That public key is useless, why would we need it? Besides, if you have managed to reduce the size, you should continue reducing it further, unless your imaginary method doesn't actually work, but nice try asking 1BTC for nothing.
I will give you a public key and a range, if you can tell me it's first 3 characters, then I will ask you to reveal the 4 characters you claim to know to puzzle creator and receive your coin, deal?

It actually is not useless. 026a0747b3229f32ce2f0f7bd77a7bd306f6c95d27e7c5bee22a417938d9988605 is the difference between the public key of puzzle 130 and the end range. Once you know it, you just need to subtract the private key of 026a...from the end range of puzzle 130 and then get the key of puzzle 130.

Well, decide for yourself, why do you need to share money with someone?
As for the equipment, there are no problems now. You can rent any server, even with huge RAM, or with powerful video cards.