Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
happy birthday,
Thanks
Mostly, I work on puzzle 66, but today, being a special day, I was trying some of my old scripts, among which was a batch (.bat) file that I occasionally run. Today, When I executed it, I saw something like Start:2C15823997A13A9000000000000000000
Stop :2C15823997A13A9FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Keys :1
Number of CPU thread: 0
Range width: 2^72
Jump Avg distance: 2^36.04
Number of kangaroos: 2^20.25
Suggested DP: 13
Expected operations: 2^37.12
Expected RAM: 707.9MB
DP size: 13 [0xFFF8000000000000]
GPU: GPU #0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (38x0 cores) Grid(76x128) (102.0 MB used)
SolveKeyGPU Thread GPU#0: creating kangaroos...
SolveKeyGPU Thread GPU#0: 2^20.25 kangaroos [4.2s]
[999.21 MK/s][GPU 999.21 MK/s][Count 2^36.91][Dead 1][02:27 (Avg 02:29)][483.1/610.4MB]
Key# 0 [1S]Pub: 0x03633CBE38F52C67DED3104637FAF4B05ABC85C6D9815DB628DF18719051FB8B3B
Priv: 0x2C15823997A13A99FE40A3DC9797A1F2E
Done: Total time 02:37
Which made me quite happy. However, this joy was short-lived because the batch file was originally created to check some sample public keys during an experiment, Following this realization I felt quite disheartened
in that sorrow, I typed the above message. 