What do you all think #67 hex starts with?
#66 I don't believe in randomization, no one can be that lucky! also brute force from the start would of required around 700 billion keys per sec to find in 2years
I think the finder knew exactly the hex started with 2832 or had some mathematical way of working out a starting point of 283 for 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002832ed74f2b5e35ee
How do you think they found it?
Real finder never exposed their finding method
Both random finding and/or mathematics all ok
The key was found via a pool, that had checked roughly 51% of all ranges. Which, is in line with probability averages.
So no, the pool did not know the key started with 2832, or 283, or 28, nor even a 2. It was purely, random.