Current solver(s) just don't care about this thread. They have many, many GPUs and just take the BTC as a little bonus. Maybe they are criminal hackers.
Thanks to french idiot JLP for giving the sourcecode for free to all them.
Might be some chinese or north korean guys. Some place where energy costs nothing or maybe every GPU is hacked.
It is very unlikely that there is a new algorithm to solve the ECDLP. Else we might expect more frequent solves and maybe a new scientific paper.
It is game over for normal guys if you not find a real new approach to cracking the ECDLP.
Zielar had access to many GPUs but I doubt he had access to that many. But he might have solved it somehow anyway. He is a very greedy/selfish person who never gave anything back to JLP, brichard19 or others.