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Re: == Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~1000 BTC total bounty to solvers! ==UPDATED==
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Szilaardsparadox
on 06/12/2024, 15:43:32 UTC
i know the public key but dont know what to do

I wonder why all those Single message accounts don't stop to appear here and there, Saying that they have magical access to some data/formula/method.

How is this considered a puzzle?

I have been working on this for years (obviously first time posting) and have come to the conclusion that there is no puzzle to solve.

This is not a puzzle it is a challenge in words of the creator:

A few words about the puzzle.  There is no pattern.  It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty).  It is simply a crude measuring instrument, of the cracking strength of the community.

How many times we need to point to that post?



Of course there's no pattern.

However we still can't entirely rule out that someone has either insider knowledge (like a certain UAE individual who receives cut out of every single positive balance addition) or stuff with the nodes.

According to certain blockchain research tools the wallet payments (very small as they are) have some two way traffic (which is weird as it, along with the wallet name) don't show consistently.

To be honest this whole project is arguably unethical and only skill of using and making certain programmes (and in the past I say) allowed some advantage. Now it's solely about who has the most GPUs and cheapest electricity and some very elementary knowledge on going through the addresses.