Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
He succeeded in his idea. He showed our cracking capabilities are poor.
Prize: 988.498 BTC (total), 31.998 BTC (won), 956.5 BTC (remaining)
His 956 BTC is relatively safe even the whole world knows the ranges where the private keys are.
Yeah, for now it seems like the progress is halted, but as tech gets better this challenge will always provide a way of seeing were our capabilities are capping.
I sometimes think that the creator has been withdrawing the BTC from the undisclosed wallets in recent years, I see no reason why someone who unlocks the puzzle should not share their keys anonymously once the wallet is emptied, either that or there is a possible sequence that we are not seeing.
I feel like the people cracking these are keeping the keys for themselves 'cause the creator might send more funds to those wallets one day, as this already happened before... Didn't #125 have like 1.25 BTC the day it was opened, and later on it got +11 BTC sent to it? That would be a pretty good reason to keep these keys close to your chest.