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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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CY4NiDE
on 09/04/2024, 03:41:27 UTC
Are you sure that this API is capable of displaying information from the mempool?

I don't think so, I believe this one is just for confirmed txs.

This is not meant to be used as is in a real scenario, although you could probably consider it a ground work to expand upon.

The goal was to actually see how long the whole operation can take using different tools.

In my end it took rougly a minute to go from a public key on the web to a 70 bit private key stored in a .txt file.

Probably not the best performance too, but scary nevertheless.  Grin