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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Bram24732
on 11/03/2025, 22:19:08 UTC
Yes, you can replace any key by other key.

A logical speedup is to ignore the rest of the elements in the range/set, and choose a new range/set, to maximize chances to find another new element.

Then the new set has exactly the same odds to find a match as the set you were about to run when finishing the range.
It feels counter intuitive, I know. If you want to be convinced just run the odds of both cases by taking a range of size 1000 with 5% probability.