I would not have thought the year 2025 would be the war of the prefixes.
You guys really need to understand this. You literally change 1 character and the prefix has no use. 1BY8GQbnuXX can be at the start of the range, while 1BY8GQbnuXXY can be at the very end of the range. There's no link. You can't reverse it. I'm having a hard time to even express this because it's such a stupid idea.
I won't be contributing to this thread until Bitcoin leaves the 100k quack range and reaches 59k what I call the "sanity range" where more normal theories are being discussed.
What I understand here is the following: 1. They gather a series of prefixes and catalog them to average the distances between each prefix (pattern). 2. They search by probability in the approximate ranges to the next possible pattern.
Since the puzzle is in a small range compared to 256 bits, it is not unreasonable to use predictions, although it is not precise, it has its logic.