Quote from: btc11235 on Today at 04:53:54 PM

No one here owes anyone anything. And no one here is entitled to anything from anyone. Period.

I for one am grateful to everyone here who has contributed their time and knowledge (etc) so willingly, you've all helped me get to where I am with my own script, which I finally completed recently after a long time thinking about it and tinkering with it (etc)... Though let's be honest, I'm still tinkering here and there Tongue

I've learned a lot in the last year or two*, about Bitcoin (and cryptography and cryptocurrency in general) and C# (which I've used for years, but there's always new things to learn), and more...

Though yes, if I'm honest, I'm a bit disheartened that someone (anyone) can swoop-in with a ton of resources (as well as whatever knowledge they can bring to bear) and start solving puzzles left and right, and just when I've finally started my own attempt at solving some myself, too... It sucks, but that's also the game... Use what you've got -- be it resources and/or knowledge and/or your unique perspective on possible approaches (prefixes, bit-flipping, etc) -- and best of luck to you...

You hear about solo miners mining a block every once in a while, and I'm just going to keep trying, with my measly CPU power and ideas, and maybe I'll hit one... I still think it's worth trying, for now at least...

@Bram24732 I am curious, as I think others here are, which puzzle you'll start on next...? If you said already then I missed it, and obviously you don't have to say at all, but it'd really help so we can plan whether to compete with you on the same one (ha!) or try our "luck" at another... It's like if I saw @nomachine fishing at a particular spot, I'd probably move and try a different spot Grin

* However long its been since I first heard about this "puzzle" and started trying to solve it at first by finding clues, etc, only to learn it's not really that kind of puzzle, with clues and hints you can piece together and follow, but I digress...

Well, people called it a Puzzle, but it's really an example of the resilience of BTC and how hard it is to pick someone else's private key) and note that here we are at least talking about range restrictions Grin