Quote from: Gtsg on Today at 05:28:43 AM

Quote from: saatoshi_rising on April 27, 2017, 06:41:08 AM

Quote from: sabbybibi on March 13, 2017, 04:17:30 PM

This puzzle is very strange. If it's for measuring the world's brute forcing capacity, 161-256 are just a waste (RIPEMD160 entropy is filled by 160, and by all of P2PKH Bitcoin). The puzzle creator could improve the puzzle's utility without bringing in any extra funds from outside - just spend 161-256 across to the unsolved portion 51-160, and roughly treble the puzzle's content density.

If on the other hand there's a pattern to find... well... that's awfully open-ended... can we have a hint or two? Cheesy

I am the creator.

You are quite right, 161-256 are silly. I honestly just did not think of this. What is especially embarrassing, is this did not occur to me once, in two years. By way of excuse, I was not really thinking much about the puzzle at all.

I will make up for two years of stupidity. I will spend from 161-256 to the unsolved parts, as you suggest. In addition, I intend to add further funds. My aim is to boost the density by a factor of 10, from 0.001*length(key) to 0.01*length(key). Probably in the next few weeks. At any rate, when I next have an extended period of quiet and calm, to construct the new transaction carefully.

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.

Finally, I wish to express appreciation of the efforts of all developers of new cracking tools and technology. The "large bitcoin collider" is especially innovative and interesting!

I've been analyzing the puzzle formation algorithm for two years. Just look at this information. After you figure this out, I'm ready for further dialogue.
https://i.postimg.cc/dVHh5k8h/XLS.jpg

It's part of the algorithm, there's another part, but what's the point of it all if the bots take the entire reward?

Could you share more details of what this is?
I don't understand what you are trying to show with #100 all I can see is that you think #67 privkey starts with a 7 according to this?