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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
WanderingPhilospher
on 02/04/2025, 19:51:32 UTC
@nomachine:

Current cyclone version from github is not working

# ./Cyclone -b 4 -h f92044c7924e5525c61207972c253c9fc9f086f7 -r 6bd20000000:6bdffffffff -S

================= WORK IN PROGRESS =================
Puzzle/Bits   : 32
Target Hash160: f92044c7924e552...c253c9fc9f086f7
Prefix length : 4 bytes
Mode          : Sequential
CPU Threads   : 12
Mkeys/s       : 36.27
Total Checked : 725503488
Elapsed Time  : 00:00:20
Start Range   : 6bd20000000
End Range     : 6bdffffffff
Progress      : 19.3 %
Progress Save : 0
Stride        : 1
================== FOUND MATCH! ====================
Private Key   : 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006BD3B27C591
Public Key    : 02A631F9BA0F28511614904DF80D7F97A4F43F02249C8909DAC92276CCF0BCDAED
Total Checked : 856310784
Elapsed Time  : 00:00:23
Speed         : 31.1849 Mkeys/s


It works the same here as in the previous version.

It works with -t 12:
Code:
$ time ./Cyclone -b 4 -h f92044c7924e5525c61207972c253c9fc9f086f7 -r 6bd20000000:6bdffffffff -S -t 12

================= WORK IN PROGRESS =================
Puzzle/Bits   : 32
Target Hash160: f92044c7924e552...c253c9fc9f086f7
Prefix length : 4 bytes
Mode          : Sequential
CPU Threads   : 12
Mkeys/s       : 18.44
Total Checked : 461110784
Elapsed Time  : 00:00:25
Start Range   : 6bd20000000
End Range     : 6bdffffffff
Progress      : 12.3 %
Progress Save : 0
Stride        : 1
================== FOUND MATCH! ====================
Private Key   : 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006BD3B27C591
Public Key    : 02A631F9BA0F28511614904DF80D7F97A4F43F02249C8909DAC92276CCF0BCDAED
Total Checked : 745232896
Elapsed Time  : 00:00:28
Speed         : 17.6145 Mkeys/s

real    0m28.031s
user    5m35.574s
sys     0m0.010s

It doesn't with -t 20:
Code:
$ time ./Cyclone -b 4 -h f92044c7924e5525c61207972c253c9fc9f086f7 -r 6bd20000000:6bdffffffff -S -t 20

================= WORK IN PROGRESS =================
Puzzle/Bits   : 32
Target Hash160: f92044c7924e552...c253c9fc9f086f7
Prefix length : 4 bytes
Mode          : Sequential
CPU Threads   : 20
Mkeys/s       : 29.35
Total Checked : 1761153024
Elapsed Time  : 00:01:00
Start Range   : 6bd20000000
End Range     : 6bdffffffff
Progress      : 46.9 %
Progress Save : 0
================= NO MATCH FOUND =================
No match found in range: 6bd20000000:6bdffffffff
Total Checked : 1886423040
Elapsed Time  : 00:01:04
Speed         : 29.37 Mkeys/s
No match found after processing all ranges.

real    1m4.224s
user    21m9.593s
sys     0m0.189s




Hasn't been tested enough. But you are doing some good testing. I would not trust it 100%, ever, lol. Even if it did 100 MK/s per CPU thread. It seems buggy depending on OS and type of CPU.