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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
kTimesG
on 24/02/2025, 12:40:57 UTC
Several thousand

Can't see how one would have made profit out of that. Was it just for kicks, RetiredCoder style? Throw away hundreds of thousands on a problem without caring much if it all gets lost or not...

Or maybe I don't know where to look to get my hands on several thousand RTX 4090 that cost something like 5 cents an hour.

An optimized CUDA kernel that targets some specific hash can do well above 7 Gkeys/s on a 4090, I guess that means only around 1000 GPUs would have been required.