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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
Lugh1Man
on 17/03/2024, 23:03:01 UTC
No, once you try to move the funds, the public key is exposed.
A single modern GPU can solve #66 in less than a minute, with a known public key.
So how do you safely move the funds from 13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so ?

You can build a bot that monitors the mempool (pending transactions) to make sure that there's no one else trying to send your BTC to another address (since they can easily calculate the private key once you publish your transaction). If anyone else is trying to do that, you can send another transaction with a higher fee to out-bid the other parties, but this can create a vicious cycle where no one wins because you all keep increasing the fee for your own transactions until nothing is left.