Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

Any sort of strategy is useless if you use either Python or ASM as long as any sort of higher-level op like SHA / RIPEMD is the actual bottleneck.

Nothing better (faster) and regularly updated is available than:

https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/tree/master/algo/ripemd (ripemd)
https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/tree/master/algo/sha (sha)

4-way, 8-way, avx2/avx512vl

But I don't see them implemented in the tools we use here. It was only used in the miner.