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Re: == Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~1000 BTC total bounty to solvers! ==UPDATED==
by
kTimesG
on 27/03/2024, 00:42:53 UTC
[quote author=kTimesG link=topic=5218972.msg63860000#
I don't need to prove to anyone what i see, but if it helps someone, the logic is simple:

Imagine a slot machine. It has 1 slot with 65536**2 options. One generation = one rotation.
The pseudocode is simple:
A true random source of 65536**2 range values can (and will) spit out a (42, 42, ...) sequence out just as equally likely as (0x7b03aa9f, 0x33bcf51c, ...). If your argument is that it's less likely for same sub-ranges to be part of a combined range, that is correct, but the sum of probabilities for all these cases is in the below 0.00000...01% of the entire count of possibilities - as demonstrated by your huge generated files. So, a lot of convoluted work to exclude a (relatively few) close to zero edge-cases.